Heavyweight Magomed Abdusalamov is in a medically induced coma after a small blood clot was found on his brain following his Saturday night defeat to Mike Perez in New York according to Dan Rafael of espn.com.
“He had surgery to have the blood clot taken out and a small piece of his skull removed to allow the [brain] swelling to go down,” Nathan Lewkowicz told ESPN.com. “After the fight he seemed fine, but they took him to the hospital to check him out and because he wasn’t feeling so good.”
“He was taken to the hospital to make sure he was OK and once he was there they found [the clot],” he said. “He thought he broke his left hand in the second round and also thought he had broken his nose at some point in the fight. But the bigger concern once he was at the hospital was the head injury they discovered.”
“Hopefully, ‘Mago’ will be out of the hospital in a couple of days,” Lewkowicz said. “He took a lot of shots to the head. His left hand is his power hand and once he broke it, he kept throwing with the right hand, but he wasn’t the same.”
Added HBO Sports president Ken Hershman in a statement: “The thoughts and prayers of all of us at HBO Sports are with Magomed Abdusalamov. We are grateful for the medical care he is receiving here in New York City and out of respect for Magomed and his family, we will wait for any official updates on his condition before making any further statements.”
