Meza declared brain dead after being knocked out in the ring.
PANAMA CITY, Panama. Colombian boxer Carlos Meza was declared brain dead Tuesday, four days after being knocked out in the ring, but doctors cannot pronounce him legally dead under local laws. Meza never recovered consciousness after being knocked out in the twelfth round of a bantamweight bout against Ricardo Cordoba in the Atlantic port city of Colon. "As a result of the injuries he received, Meza shows brain death,'' the Santo Tomas Hospital said in a statement. Doctors said they were not allowed to disconnect Meza from life-support systems as long as other organs are working. Dr. Winston Grenald said the doctors, "did all they could'' to save the twenty-six-year-old fighter from Barranquilla, Colombia. Meza, who is ranked fourteenth by the World Boxing Association, underwent an operation on Saturday to ease swelling from cerebral bleeding.
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