Don King, on Mike Tyson


"Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter?
He went to prison, not to Princeton."



"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music
and the dancers hit each other."

Thursday, October 17, 2019

Cruel Fate




Image: Oleksandr Usyk v Chazz Witherspoon



Patrick Day, right, lands a punch on Charles Conwell during the third round of their super welterweight fight on Saturday in Chicago. Photograph: Dylan Buell/Getty Images


Boxer Patrick Day was knocked out in the 10th round by Charles Conwell on Saturday night.

Day, 27, was treated by a doctor in the ring and then was rushed off on a stretcher by paramedics and transported to the hospital.

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Cruel Fate - how else can you explain the different outcomes?  Spence was catapulted out of his car in a high speed crash and broke no bones, thank God.  

Day got KO'd and died a few days later.




 

Boxer Patrick Day has died after he sustained head injuries in a fight on Saturday night against fellow American Charles Conwell.
The 27-year-old was knocked out in the 10th round of his super-welterweight bout in Chicago and fell into a coma, with his promoter confirming Day’s death on Wednesday .......



High-speed accident


Spence Jr faces DWI charge after Thursday high-speed accident


2012 Olympian survived one-car wreck with no broken bones


















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