Nick Blackwell's Recovery

[Master]

Nick Blackwell was a decent boxer who had bags of energy and was relentless in the ring. He scored some impressive knock outs late in fights and I became a fan of his because he was always in exciting bouts.

[Primo Carnera]

Very sad. It’s easy to be hard on him because of the sparring bringing on the second coma, but Boxing was his fucking life.
However, the cunts who a. Sparred with him and b. Ran the gym that allowed him to spar, should have criminal charges against them.

[p4pking]

Its easy to say that after the fact, but does anyone know what happened? The guys who sparred with him could have been young kids or novices, maybe Blackwell was pressing them to get in the ring with him.... like I said, he seemed himself just a few weeks after the Eubank fight, maybe nobody else involved even knew what the extent of the injury was, maybe he didnt himself.... Look at someone like Jermain Taylor, he had a brain injury after bad back to back KO losses, looked awful and was hurt again in his comeback, and was actually still sanctioned to fight for a world title not long afterwards.

[Primo Carnera]

Its easy to say that after the fact, but does anyone know what happened? The guys who sparred with him could have been young kids or novices, maybe Blackwell was pressing them to get in the ring with him.... like I said, he seemed himself just a few weeks after the Eubank fight, maybe nobody else involved even knew what the extent of the injury was, maybe he didnt himself.... Look at someone like Jermain Taylor, he had a brain injury after bad back to back KO losses, looked awful and was hurt again in his comeback, and was actually still sanctioned to fight for a world title not long afterwards.

Nah. I remember at the time, I think the guy who sparred him was a novice LHW and the guy who’s gym it was were there. They knew the Blackwell story, they should never have let it happen. I’ll see if I can find out some more facts.