Boxer falls into coma on xmas day, about to pull life support

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I wonder if there is a video of this fight. Crazy how he ended up winning the fight only to collapse...............

The End is Near For Former Champion Choi

By Ronnie Nathanielsz

The end is near for former world WBC light flyweight champion Yo Sam Choi as doctors have decided to remove the life-support system that he’s been on since Christmas day when he underwent surgery after falling into a coma at the end of a WBO Intercontinental flyweight title fight which he won handily.

The decision was made when Choi was declared “brain dead” after a nine-member panel led by a neurosurgeon conducted two examinations of the fighter.

Yonhap News Agency reported this evening that a spokesman for Asan Medical Center in Seoul announced “surgeons will take him off the system right after stopping his heart from functioning at about midnight (Wednesday).”

Hospital officials said Yo Sam Choi’s family had agreed to donate his organs in the hope that they can save other lives.

Choi won the WBC world light flyweight title from Thailand’s Saman Sorjaturong in October 1999 and defended it four times. He lost the title to Mexican ring warrior Jorge Arce in July 2002.

Choi was the reigning WBO Intercontinental flyweight champion and battled Indonesia’s Heri Amol in an action-packed bout last December 25. Choi was knocked down with some five seconds remaining in the final round. He recovered to hear the unanimous points decision in his favor and then fell unconscious. He was rushed to a nearby hospital where he underwent brain surgery but never recovered from a coma.
 
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Former WBC light featherweight champion Yo-Sam Choi, who has been in a coma since winning a bout on December 25th in Seoul, South Korea, passed away at around midnight Wednesday after being removed from a ventilator. On Tuesday the fighter was declared brain dead by the Seoul Asan Hospital after two examinations by a neurosurgeon-led nine-member panel. According to the Korea Times, Choi's heart, kidneys, liver and corneas were transplanted to patients on the Korean Network for Organ Sharing (KONOS) patient list. Choi (32-5, 19 KOs) won the WBC light flyweight title from Saman Sorjaturong in October 1999 and defended it four times, finally relinquishing it to Jorge Arce in July 2002. The Fightnews.com staff sends its sympathies to Choi's family and friends.
 
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wow, this makes it more crazy. His last written words:


In a revealing insight into his thoughts which were scribbled in a diary, journalist Sam Kim quoted Choi as noting ”not much time is left. Will I be a loser again? I cant concentrate. I just want to end it all.” And in a final entry before facing Amol, the Korean champion said he would throw in his reserves to retain the championship so he may one day realize his dream of “a simple life.”

“One step back, then I die. This is a match on the brink,” he wrote.
 
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well its like Antonio Tarver said, there isnt enough money when ur life is on the line. Boxing is not a sport without risk of serious injury or death. A good 4 or 5 boxers die a year across the world. RIP
 
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Another boxer died yesterday......

Light Flyweight Alex Aroy Dies After Bout




By Ronnie Nathanielsz

Promising light flyweight Alex Aroy has died following a ten round bout against Arnel Tadena in Villaba, Leyte on Monday night.

A sketchy report from Aroy’s manager Rex “Wakee” Salud said the fighter died on his way to a hospital after he collapsed and complained of being unable to urinate.

Salud said Aroy wasn’t hurt during the fight and there was no indication of the cause of death.

Aroy had a record of 12-5-2 with 6 knockouts while Tadena had a record of 7-3-2 with 4 knockouts.

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Salud, in a long distance telephone conversation with Viva Sports/Manila Standard Today from Cebu City said the 22 year old boxer was “in good condition and had never been down in his career.” He said Aroy collapsed about an hour after the fight and was rushed to the District Hospital which regrettably “had no facilities, not even oxygen” which prompted the attending doctor to recommend that Aroy be transferred to the better equipped and bigger hospital in Palompon but didn’t make it and was pronounced dead-on-arrival.

Dr. Cruz said based on an initial “raw report” there were no knockdowns during the fight but Aroy later “ complained of abdominal pains and inability to urinate. He was fully conscious and walking during that time. “


According to Dr. Cruz the “center of the problem was in the abdomen but unfortunately the boxer didn’t make it to the hospital.”



Aroy won the Philippine Boxing Federation light flyweight title with a fourth round knockout win over Dennis Juntillano on November 22, 2006 and was leading Tadena in their first encounter on August 14 last year when Tadena suffered a nasty gash because of an accidental head-butt and the fight was stopped.

In the rematch Aroy dropped a points decision last Saturday.
 
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This is the second death in as many months. Choi Yo-sam, a South Korean boxer, fell into a coma after winning his WBO intercontinental flyweight title and later died. He got knocked down in the final round, got up, beat the count, and the fight ended. He stood until the decision was announced, then immediately collapsed.

 
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^^fasho.

I like this story, some sunshine to the darkness:

Korean Boxer Choi Yo-Sam's Death Gives Life to Six
Thousands Pay Condolences, as His Organs Are Donated to Six Patients



South Koreans are mourning the death of former world champion boxer Choi Yo-Sam, but lauded his family's decision to donate Choi's organs to save lives.

The 33-year-old boxer fell into a coma minutes after winning the WBO intercontinental flyweight match against Indonesian Heri Amol Christmas Day.

"He suffered intracranial bleeding in his brain. It was caused by not just one blow, but by repeatedly accumulated hits on his head," said Dr. Lee Sung-Gyu, in charge of organ transplant at Asan Medical Center in Seoul.

Doctors declared him dead Thursday.

Thousands of condolence callers visited the funeral court at Asan hospital on the second day of the three-day funeral.

"I should have hugged him that morning," said Choi's mother in tears, "but, for some reason, I held myself back." Oh Soon-E, 65, recalled her son as a somewhat brusque man with a big heart. "When we watch television documentaries about poor and sick people, he used to cry a lot. He always said that he wanted to help others."

Choi's heart, liver, both kidneys and corneas were donated to six patients, and his bone and cartilage were given to a tissue bank. Recipients were kept anonymous as required by Korean law to prevent a commercial black market. South Korean government awarded him a medal in recognition of his donation and last victory.

Choi was successfully defending his title when he fell just seconds before the end of the final 12th round. He got right back up and was declared winner on points.

"I had a bad feeling when the opponent kept punching the head," said Choi's sponsor Kim Seung-Kwan. "It was Choi's best game ever. He didn't have a hard time at all throughout the game. But, at the end, he kept glancing at his brother right next to me. Usually, he is focused, but something was wrong."

Immediately after the winner was announced, Choi collapsed at his corner of the ring.

"He struggled with all his might to get back up," recalled Chang Bong-Soo, a close friend who sat through the match and escorted the boxer to the hospital in an ambulance that arrived 20 minutes later. South Korean media reported that several vehicles were illegally parked in front of the ambulance, a common practice in Korea where traffic is among the worst in the world.

Choi's family also expressed anger at the ambulance delivering the patient to a distant hospital associated with the Korea Boxing Commission, instead of a closer general hospital. Choi's mother believes that he could have been saved if he had arrived at a hospital earlier.

Korean boxing analysts are now discussing ways to prevent further fatal and serious injuries.
 
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COOPDVILL said:
damn!!! and this shit is still legal!!! r.i.p
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more people die working construction each year than boxing. Hazardous jobs, no doubt, but they are aware of the dangers involved.

I just wish there was more of a financial plan available for fighters to take care of their medical bills when injured from the sport (and every other job for that matter). Look at G-Man, it costs $70,000/a year for his two sisters to take care of him and he doesn't get a dime from boxing (not after Don King raped him for his fight purse against Nigel Benn).
 
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