Oscar Diaz rushed to hospital

[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.

[amat]

Doesn't make it any less hard to watch. But the fact remains it's no more dangerous then me driving to my local corner store (especially me) and far more die in sports like auto racing and get seriously injured in football then they do boxing. But it's tough no doubt.

[C.J.Rock]

God Bless Oscar Keep fightin man like you have your whole career You and your family are in my prayers

[Spicoli]

Just occured to me ,I have not missed an ESPN card in at least one year...

I missed this one last night while getting all worked up at Rahman/Toney wtf fight.Scenarios could not have been more different.......Hope Huge hearted Diaz recovers and has a full life with family.Sux!

[amat]

AFP: Welterweight Diaz criticial after brain surgery

Removed the left side of his cranium.... Doesn't sound very appealing, but more positive news it seems then what one could have expected. Seems to have shown movement and is not in a coma.

[LEGION]

AFP: Welterweight Diaz criticial after brain surgery

Removed the left side of his cranium.... Doesn't sound very appealing, but more positive news it seems then what one could have expected. Seems to have shown movement and is not in a coma.

How awful I hope he can at least live a normal life after this ordeal.

[Gandalf]

That is absolutely terrible. I can only things turn out as well as they possbly can in these kind of horrendous cirmumstances.

[donnydarkoIRL]

I shouldn't be in here right now.

[killersheep]

He trained here in Phoenix, I wonder if I should go to that gym and pay my respects.

[amat]

It's so odd that 3 of the people you can count on to be here every week weren't when this happened. I envy them to be honest, was not a pretty sight.

[OumaFan]

That's horrible. I wasn't really watching to be honest. I was watching Toney/Rahman and even before that I was just watching bits and pieces of that one. At one point around the ninth when I was actually watching Diaz was moving backwards and not doing much and it seemed to me that at that point there was no real reason for the fight to go on since he wasn't gonna win the fight that way but I didn't realize he was taking that kind of a beating. Hopefully things work out as well as possible.

Did anybody who was watching the fight close see this coming? I remember the George Jones-Beethaven Scotland fight on ESPN 2 years ago and really being worried about Scotland rounds before the tragedy happened, and same with Chavez-Leevander Johnson. I didn't notice Diaz taking that kind of punishment but like I said I wasn't watching closely.

[LEGION]

It's so odd that 3 of the people you can count on to be here every week weren't when this happened. I envy them to be honest, was not a pretty sight.

I was here following the thread, but to be honest I'm glad my DISH service was down; as that really isn't something I want to see.

[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.

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.

Safer than ever, yes, but still incredibly dangerous. Of course you can get hurt in other sports, but in what other sport besides MMA is the sole purpose of the athletes to give your opponent a brain injury? So I think simply saying that its safer now or that you can get injured in other sports too is hardly justification.

[Spicoli]

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.

Safer than ever, yes, but still incredibly dangerous. Of course you can get hurt in other sports, but in what other sport besides MMA is the sole purpose of the athletes to give your opponent a brain injury? So I think simply saying that its safer now or that you can get injured in other sports too is hardly justification.

Just as much to do with defense as it does Offense at times and is much more than Inflicting brain Injurys??.Its another physical sport where bodies clash and as unfortunate as it is...sometimes people get hurt.No,we should not brush it off or just except it even,No one wants This...No one but it is the bull in the china shop that rears its ugly head at times. Its not in need of "justification"....The inherant risk's are known and on the minds of any fighter that has ever stepped into the ring at one time or another.