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Sports - December 22, 2018

Boxer in coma three weeks after KO

The left hand hook that sent Stevenson (r) to comma.

Following his 11th round knockout, Adonis Stevenson remains in a coma three weeks after title fight with mandatory challenger Oleksander Gvozdyk on December 1, in Quebec City, Canada.

According to ESPN.com, Stevenson, 41, is still on mechanical respiration to assist him with breathing following brain surgery on the night of the fight.

There’s no improvement on Stevenson’s condition as of now.

Stevenson’s promoter Yvon Michel said to AP and ESPN.com that the “doctors do not venture an opinion on what lies ahead” for him, but that he “needs mechanical assistance to breathe.”

Stevenson (29-2-1, 21 KOs) was ahead on the scorecards in the 11th round when he was dropped by a five-punch combination by Gvozdyk. It was a sudden thing where one second Stevenson was looking fine, and the next Gvozdyk was unloading on him with heavy shots that were connecting cleanly to the head of the champion.

Gvozdyk was able to land some shots after Stevenson was seemingly defenseless on his feet after being badly hurt. At that point, Stevenson went down on the canvas, and the referee Michael Griffin didn’t hesitate in waiving off the fight immediately.

After the fight ended, Stevenson went back to his dressing room where his condition worsened, and he needed to be taken to the hospital in an ambulance. At the hospital, Stevenson was operated on for his brain injury.

Before losing to Gvozdyk, Stevenson had held the World Boxing Council title since 2013 after stopping Chad Dawson in the 1st round.

Stevenson had defended the WBC title nine times, and he was seen by many boxing fans as the best fighter in the 175 lb weight class for a number of years.

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