Darren Sutherland

**TheMacMagician** · 09-15-2009 10:35 AM

Totally gutted for everyone involved in this. My heart goes out to his family and friends.

R.I.P to a damn good fighter and a damn good man.

Dave S....

**skel1983** · 09-15-2009 11:59 AM

Just found this video.

Also apparently Darren had a bad eye injury and packed the boxing in for a 2/3 years after he was at the Ingle gym, he then did a a degree and decided to give the boxing another go again in 2004, the rest is history. He was also said to fall into a depression after the eye injury and thought he couldnt box again, i dont like to speculate but do you think the injury had come back??

There might be a clue in his past. Three years ago Sutherland thought his boxing career was over after suffering a freak eye injury.

He was fighting for Ireland against a Russian B team at the National Stadium in Dublin when his opponent accidentally caught him in the eyeball and fractured the socket in two places.

"I was taken straight to hospital," he recalled last year, "where they saw that the muscle that moves the eye upwards was damaged so I couldn't move the eye. The hospital put like a plate in it and it's still there – it's not made of metal, but another substance to keep the eye strong."

He was so conscious of looking cross-eyed, though, that he refused to leave the house. Contemplating a future without boxing, he fell into a depression, before doctors decided after six months that he was fit to fight again. It turned his life around

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI0E8...embedded#t=147

**DS250579** · 09-15-2009 01:13 PM

This has got to be the worst year for deaths in the boxing business, even worse is the way they are going with the Forrest murder and Gatti murder/suicide. Bad times people!

**littlebif** · 09-15-2009 02:26 PM

What a shame a promising fighter that could of gone on to do good things in the ring. R I P sutherland.

Looks like the news has hit Frank Maloney very bad aswell hope he recovers soon he has had a bad week of boxing.He must be fed up with his latest sad news.

**yvonne** · 09-15-2009 02:50 PM

Originally Posted by skel1983

Just found this video.

Also apparently Darren had a bad eye injury and packed the boxing in for a 2/3 years after he was at the Ingle gym, he then did a a degree and decided to give the boxing another go again in 2004, the rest is history. He was also said to fall into a depression after the eye injury and thought he couldnt box again, i dont like to speculate but do you think the injury had come back??

There might be a clue in his past. Three years ago Sutherland thought his boxing career was over after suffering a freak eye injury.

He was fighting for Ireland against a Russian B team at the National Stadium in Dublin when his opponent accidentally caught him in the eyeball and fractured the socket in two places.

"I was taken straight to hospital," he recalled last year, "where they saw that the muscle that moves the eye upwards was damaged so I couldn't move the eye. The hospital put like a plate in it and it's still there – it's not made of metal, but another substance to keep the eye strong."

He was so conscious of looking cross-eyed, though, that he refused to leave the house. Contemplating a future without boxing, he fell into a depression, before doctors decided after six months that he was fit to fight again. It turned his life around

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI0E8...embedded#t=147

Really geniune good lad Darren,still shocked here.Such a waste.I cant believe he was found the way he was too.Gutted.

My thoughts go out to his close family and friends,R.I.P Darren.