Shannon Briggs is in intensive care

[Spicoli]

Hope he makes a complete recovery and calls it a career. It was a showcase mismatch from the start given his history.

[Gandalf]

I'm glad that the reports of being intensive care are not true. I read the thread title and got the chills, perhaps that could be changed as it is not quite true. His injuries are awful though and agree with others that it should have been stopped earlier. His corner needs to take responsibility for that, they are supposed to know their fighter.

Briggs deserves a lot of respect for enduring that. The man just wouldn't go down and took it. Briggs should probably retire now, but if he wants to finish his career with a win I wouldn't begrudge him.

On a side note, I think Vitali is the better fighter of the two brothers. There are no real chinks with Vitali, he can take your shots, keep you away with distance, has output, can bust you up, good stamina. He's the allround package. Wlad has improved, but I find him using skills to simply mask the deficits. Vitali doesn't have any of those flaws.

[boxingbantz]

I'm glad that the reports of being intensive care are not true. I read the thread title and got the chills, perhaps that could be changed as it is not quite true. His injuries are awful though and agree with others that it should have been stopped earlier. His corner needs to take responsibility for that, they are supposed to know their fighter.

Briggs deserves a lot of respect for enduring that. The man just wouldn't go down and took it. Briggs should probably retire now, but if he wants to finish his career with a win I wouldn't begrudge him.

On a side note, I think Vitali is the better fighter of the two brothers. There are no real chinks with Vitali, he can take your shots, keep you away with distance, has output, can bust you up, good stamina. He's the allround package. Wlad has improved, but I find him using skills to simply mask the deficits. Vitali doesn't have any of those flaws.

It was true at the time mate.

[Gandalf]

I'm glad that the reports of being intensive care are not true. I read the thread title and got the chills, perhaps that could be changed as it is not quite true. His injuries are awful though and agree with others that it should have been stopped earlier. His corner needs to take responsibility for that, they are supposed to know their fighter.

Briggs deserves a lot of respect for enduring that. The man just wouldn't go down and took it. Briggs should probably retire now, but if he wants to finish his career with a win I wouldn't begrudge him.

On a side note, I think Vitali is the better fighter of the two brothers. There are no real chinks with Vitali, he can take your shots, keep you away with distance, has output, can bust you up, good stamina. He's the allround package. Wlad has improved, but I find him using skills to simply mask the deficits. Vitali doesn't have any of those flaws.

It was true at the time mate.

That's fair enough then. Intensive care gives me images of people in comas, so probably just my interpretation gone a bit funny.

[GAME]

I'm glad that the reports of being intensive care are not true. I read the thread title and got the chills, perhaps that could be changed as it is not quite true. His injuries are awful though and agree with others that it should have been stopped earlier. His corner needs to take responsibility for that, they are supposed to know their fighter.

Briggs deserves a lot of respect for enduring that. The man just wouldn't go down and took it. Briggs should probably retire now, but if he wants to finish his career with a win I wouldn't begrudge him.

On a side note, I think Vitali is the better fighter of the two brothers. There are no real chinks with Vitali, he can take your shots, keep you away with distance, has output, can bust you up, good stamina. He's the allround package. Wlad has improved, but I find him using skills to simply mask the deficits. Vitali doesn't have any of those flaws.

Yeah I was abit concerned when I read it but then I read it was because of the fractures whereas I imagined he had gne into a coma or summat.

Latest is Shannon says he is fine. He was cracking jokes on his facebook updates and says he wants to go home but he may need surgery. He seems to be blaming the loss on the injury to the torn muscle her received in round 1 .

[CutMeMick]

He needs to retire...