Oscar Diaz rushed to hospital

[smashup]

Sad news so fingers crossed he pulls through.....
FOX Sports on MSN - Boxing - Report: Diaz in brain surgery after collapse in ring

[Diane]

This is sad, we were talking about this in the WNF thread. I'm going to repost my comment here, in case no one reads it in that thread.


When that happened last night, I just looked at Diaz, and immediately thought that he looked as bad as Victor Burgos did last year. I even teared up a bit, because I knew it wasn't good, but I kept holding out hope that he was fine, even though Danny kept telling me the kid was probably going to need brain surgery, and I told him to stop talking like that.

Then I get up this morning to find out how bad it is. I just pray, that he is able to make a full recovery. Thank God the medics jumped in there quickly, and got him out of there.

I would like to add, however, I don't know what the hell his corner was thinking by trying to convince the ref that he was okay to continue. His eye was pretty much swollen shut, he looked out of it, and he was behind on the cards. Why would they take that chance? His corner should have stopped that fight.

[smashup]

The fact the medics were so fast getting oxygen to him will be a huge help
Similar to the York Hall in London really....when a fighter goes down heavily and is in trouble they leap into the ring within about 10 seconds and get the mask on him sharpish.
Good too see.

[PRIDE OF BOSTON]

I'll say a prayer for him..

[Diane]

Here is an update on his condition.

ESPN - Diaz undergoes surgery to relieve swelling on brain - Boxing

[Beanflicker]

Ahhh jeez thats terrible. Youy hate to hear about things like this. Hopefully he'll be alright

[Kel]

Fingers crossed

[Beanflicker]

I dont know about you guys but every time I hear about something like this it makes me re-evalutate whether or not I should be watching boxing. I think as fight fans we get too desensitized to the violence and lose sight of how incredibly dangerous this sport really is.

[PRIDE OF BOSTON]

I dont know about you guys but every time I hear about something like this it makes me re-evalutate whether or not I should be watching boxing. I think as fight fans we get too desensitized to the violence and lose sight of how incredibly dangerous this sport really is.

Mmmm... there's some truth to that

[Kel]

I dont know about you guys but every time I hear about something like this it makes me re-evalutate whether or not I should be watching boxing. I think as fight fans we get too desensitized to the violence and lose sight of how incredibly dangerous this sport really is.

It's FAR safer than it used to be. In fact, it's as safe as it can be without taking away the EXITEMENT of the sport, the thing we all watch it for. I don't feel guilty, it's still prize fighting at the end of the day, you can get injured or killed in many sports.

Just because we watch the skills of the fighters rather than a casual fan just waiting for someone to drop, I don't think we have anything to feel guilty about fella.

[THE THIRD MAN]

I dont know about you guys but every time I hear about something like this it makes me re-evalutate whether or not I should be watching boxing. I think as fight fans we get too desensitized to the violence and lose sight of how incredibly dangerous this sport really is.

I hear what you are saying but look at it like this, a lot of sports are dangerous, imagine being a horse jockey in a race fall with 400-500 lbs falling on top of you or a Formula One/Indy car driver who crashes at speeds of 200 mph or American Gridiron Football where a 300lb guy can actually deliberately take you out of the game with a bone crunching tackle. People participate in extreme sports often not as protected as Boxing. it is unfortunate that these things happen but you will find Boxing is very safe for it's athletes who train to the extreme to be prepared any eventuality.

[Youngblood]

Wow. Was watching this and fell asleep about round 3 or 4. Decide to have a look at how it finished up, and this...

Hope he makes it okay.

This is not a powder puff sport. We are trying to bash each others brains in, and unfortunately, sometimes succeed.

Any active boxers in here should be familiar with TBI and what to look out for. I just did a short post regarding it in ATT...is about 10 posts down from first post.

http://www.saddoboxing.com/boxingfor...ng-lights.html

[Hulk]

I'll be prayin for the poor guy. I hoped it wasn't that bad of an injury. It was strange how he just collapsed.