Hard case. What happened to Magomed Abdusalamov? Boxer Abdusalamov Magomed: biography

2017-09-11T13:26:42+03:00

"Money will not return my former husband to me." The Abdusalamov family received $22 million in compensation in a US court

The family of Russian boxer Magomed Abdusalamov won a lawsuit in the United States and will receive a very large monetary compensation. Match TV correspondent Vadim Tikhomirov spoke with Bakanai Abdusalamova to find out what her three years of struggle for justice and the health of her husband were like for her.

On November 2, 2013, in New York, Russian Magomed Abdusalamov lost a boxing match for the first time in his career: he lost to Cuban Mike Perez by unanimous decision. After the fight, Abdusalamov felt unwell, began to lose consciousness and was taken to the hospital by taxi. Doctors determined a cerebral hemorrhage and put the boxer into a state of artificial coma. In December, Abdusalamov was brought out of a coma - and two exhausting processes were launched for his family. The first is rehabilitation, due to the fact that after a coma, the boxer could not move and talk. The second is judicial, since, according to relatives of Magomed, he did not receive timely medical care.

On the night of September 9, 2017, ESPN wrote that the court ordered the state of New York to pay $ 22 million to the boxer's family as compensation for the injuries sustained by Magomed Abdusalamov. Among other things, it was indicated that this is the largest compensation in US history for bodily injuries.

“All this is really true, but the trial is not over yet, we are continuing the case, there will be more trials,” Bakanai Abdusalamova, Magomed’s wife, said in an interview with Match TV a few hours after the news appeared.

- But the state of New York has to pay your family 22 million dollars, and this is already certain?

- For you, money was a matter of principle, a desire to prove that someone is guilty of what happened to your husband?

It's hard for me to say now. You see, when the trial began, I thought that Mago would come to his senses by the last court hearings. I thought his condition was for six months, maybe for a year. But now, when you realize that Mago has not yet recovered and that you need a lot of money, and you see that you are alone, and everything you need for your family needs to be paid somehow, you understand that you need money too.

- I perfectly understand that you did not win this money in the lottery, but still this is a huge fortune that suddenly became yours - how will you manage it?

- We have to pay for the work of lawyers, we have debts - about two million dollars. Plus, out of the amount that we will be paid, ten million will look like an investment that will provide us with a monthly income, which should be enough to support the family and rehabilitate Magomed. I hope this money will help create Better conditions for recovery, we will be able to see where and what rehabilitation centers are, it will be easier for us to move around.

As I said, we received the money, but whatever it is, I can’t just take it and return the Mago that was before.

What is a two million dollar debt?

- These are the expenses that we incurred in the course of rehabilitation. All procedures here are very expensive. Just to give an example, a 15-minute acupuncture session costs $150. We need several such sessions a week, and we have been doing them for three years. A special bed for people who cannot move independently costs about eight thousand dollars. We need to pay so that we can travel to train.

- Train?

- That's what I call physiotherapy, I'm already used to this word when I talk about Magomed. Usually we have hour-long workouts and in addition to them we do either in the pool or come to us and do acupuncture. At home there is a special room where we can go for procedures.

- All boxers have insurance before the fight.

- Yes, insurance coverage is ten thousand dollars ... This is enough for a few minutes of resuscitation in a clinic in the USA. Magomed spent two months in a coma. I exaggerate, of course, but when a person receives such damage, insurance does not cover even a small part. For example, Andrei Ryabinsky helped us pay for treatment in a rehabilitation center ( Russian businessman, head of the company "World of Boxing" - "Match TV"). Treatment there costs several tens of thousands of dollars a month. But we had many procedures later, in fact, it was a treatment on credit - the hospital agreed, although I understood that it would be difficult for me to repay this debt. I have nothing.

During rehabilitation, Magomed was hospitalized several times. Once everything was very serious, he had a severe infection, we just did not advertise it. We started developing osteomyelitis (a purulent-necrotic process in the bone - "Match TV"), sepsis, and Magomed's condition was very serious. At some point it seemed to me that the doctors, in principle, decided that he could not cope and thought that it should be so. I started yelling for them to do something. Magomed spent several weeks in the hospital. Now we live on, and we will not say that everything is gorgeous, but normal.

– Where do you live?

- In Greenwich in New York, in the house that family friend Aminulla Suleimanov provided us, he, together with Andrei Ryabinsky, helped us the most, and I am very grateful to them for this, because it was the help without which everything would be now differently. But obviously, we can't live all our lives in someone else's house, we would like to buy our own.

- Have you ever met Mike Perez (Magomed Abdusalamov's opponent)?

- No. For what?

Would it be important to you that he personally apologize to you?

– He boxed in the ring just like my husband. Before that, Magomed also had all the victories by knockouts, that is, he also beat people hard. What happened to him is not the fault of his opponent.

- Who do you blame?

- I can't rate. We believe that Magomed did not receive a timely medical care– that's all I can say.

- Magomed understands that you won the trial?

It's hard for me to answer you. Of course, I tell him this, but I think that he does not fully understand. He is now a different person, he cannot sit and argue what we will do when we won the court. I can. I think about what conditions it will create for him so that he can live and train, what conditions I can create for the life of our children with Magomed.

I would like to equip a training room at home, buy all the necessary rehabilitation devices there, so that we can undergo procedures outside the rehabilitation center, so that we can work out before bed. I'd like to buy him a special bed, I've got a few more things in mind for him, and hopefully it works out now.

– Unfortunately, there are stories when a person and doctors reach the maximum in terms of rehabilitation, and after that it is already difficult to improve something.

- In general, doctors first told us that he would not survive, then that he would not be able to think, then that he would not be able to speak. Now they say they see a miracle, because initially they looked at the pictures of his brain and said the word "plant", and now they look and say "fantastic".

He works left-hand side body, he opens his eyes, he tries to speak. While doctors do not promise anything, we just hope that there will be some more results.

- Have you thought about trying to be treated somewhere other than the USA: in Israel, Switzerland, Germany?

- Well, where we do not. Of course, they say that there are other good clinics, but America has very good medicine. Perhaps in another country he would not have survived with such injuries. And I’m not ready to move with the children and Magomed to another place, especially when I don’t know how he will endure the flight.

- Do you get a lot of advice on how to be treated?

“Instagram constantly says: “Try this…do it like this…these medicines help.” I don’t try any of this, because without the doctor’s permission I can’t give anything, and now he has a lot of drugs that you need to know how to combine with each other, and some new drugs may simply be incompatible. Someone says that it is necessary to use the traditional method for Islam - Hijama (bloodletting treatment - "Match TV"), I respect traditions, but imagine if doctors in the USA see that I myself do some things on my husband's body then incisions. I think I myself can then be sent to court.

- If you happen to see a boxing match today, how do you react?

- I can’t sit down on purpose and turn on boxing myself, but if I see it somewhere, I won’t turn away, I understand that my husband lived this, and an injury could have been in ordinary life get. So, when you wrote to me, on WhatsApp, you thought that this was not my number, because there is an adult man in my profile picture.

Yes, and very serious.

“It's just a picture of my brother, he died in a car accident two years ago. This is a huge grief, but this does not mean that we should now not drive. It's the same with boxing.

Professional athletes are always at risk of serious injuries that can leave them disabled for the rest of their lives or even kill them. A few examples of such cases that broke the lives of famous athletes are waiting for you further. Attention, this post contains pictures that we do not recommend viewing too impressionable people.

Elena Mukhina. The gymnast, the leader of the USSR national team, was predicted to be the champion of the Moscow Olympics, but a terrible injury received a few weeks before the competition in training radically changed her life.

Elena's coach was Mikhail Klimenko. He began to train her from the age of 14, before that he worked only with men, and decided that a specially created the most difficult program.

Three years later, Elena became the second in the all-around at the USSR Championship and won three gold medals at the European Championship. The following year, she won the overall standings of the national championship and won three gold medals at the world championship in Strasbourg.

The first serious injury overtook her in 1975 during the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR in Leningrad. The detachment of the spinous processes of the cervical vertebrae was the result of an unsuccessful landing. Mukhina was admitted to the hospital: the athlete could not turn her neck.

But every day after a medical round, Klimenko took the gymnast to the gym, where he removed the orthopedic collar so that Lena would train there until the evening. Even then, the athlete felt how her legs began to go numb; She recognized the feeling of weakness that later became familiar to her.

Despite this, the athlete did not give up the performance, and at demonstration performances in the fall of 1979 in England she broke her leg. She spent a month and a half in a cast, after which it turned out that the bones had parted.

The cast was put on again, but the coach did not wait for recovery and sent Mukhina to train in the gym on one healthy leg.

Complicating Mukhina's program on the eve of the Olympic Games, Klimenko included in it new element in floor exercises: after a flask and a most difficult jump (one and a half somersaults with a turn of 540 degrees), the landing was to take place head down into a somersault.

This element was called "Thomas somersault" and was taken from men's gymnastics. Mukhina recalled that she repeatedly told the coach that she lacked speed and height, and she literally risked breaking her neck. Klimenko, on the other hand, believed that the new element was not dangerous.

“I saw my fall several times in a dream,” Mukhina recalled. “I saw how they carried me out of the hall. I understood that sooner or later this would really happen. I felt like an animal being driven with a whip along an endless corridor. But again and again I came to the hall. Probably, this is fate. But they are not offended by fate. "

It is believed that Klimenko, when leaving, forbade Mukhina to independently train Thomas somersaults on the platform, only in a foam pit, however, the girl nevertheless decided to complete the program in full, including a new element.

“On that day, Lena didn’t feel well, but the coach insisted that she do a run, show the entire program with maximum difficulty in floor exercises,” said former gymnast Lidia Ivanova. “In one of the difficult jumps, when Lena had already gone into the air and started twist, she either relaxed, or let her injured ankle down: Mukhina did not twist and hit the carpet with all her might.

In Minsk, for some reason, they could not operate on the gymnast immediately after her fall, although immediate surgical intervention could greatly alleviate Mukhina's situation, she was transported to Moscow.

After the first operation, others followed, but they did not bring visible results. The gymnast remained almost completely paralyzed: she could not stand, sit, and even simply eat.

“After all these countless operations, I decided that if I want to live, then I need to run away from hospitals. Then I realized that I need to radically change my attitude to life. Do not envy others, but learn to enjoy what is available to me. I realized that the commandments “do not think badly”, “do not act badly”, “do not envy” are not just words,” Elena said.

The gymnast could not forget her coach, who remained in her memory closely associated with the nightmare of the past. When the athlete learned that Klimenko, who had left for Italy with his family shortly after the tragedy, returned to Moscow, her condition deteriorated sharply. Mukhina categorically refused to meet with him.

Clint Malarchuk. On March 22, 1989, the Buffalo Sabers goaltender was standing in goal as usual during a game with the St. Louis Blues when Steve Tuttle and Uwe Krupp flew into him, colliding a second earlier.

Tuttle accidentally injured Malarchuk's jugular vein with a skate blade: a fountain of blood poured onto the ice, plunging the stadium into a state of shock.

Many of Malarchuk's teammates vomited, and the audience began to faint. In a few seconds, the hockey player lost almost a liter of blood, and then lost the same amount on the way to the hospital,

Physiotherapist Jim Pizzutelli was able to stop the bleeding by squeezing a vein and handing the hockey player over to the doctors. Surgeons managed to save Clint's life by giving him over 300 stitches.

After an injury, Clint Malarchuk left his sports career and became a children's coach, but experienced terrible psychological problems and twice tried to commit suicide, but miraculously he managed to survive after clinical death, which came as a result of poisoning, and get off with a couple of scars after trying to shoot himself.

Roni Keller. The incident happened in 2013. Opponent player Stefan Schnyder pushed Keller, causing him to fly headfirst into the side at high speed.

The resulting spinal injury was fatal.

Roni not only could not return to his sports career, he was forever paralyzed. In one day, his sports future and carefree life were crossed out.

Stefan Schnider was very worried about his guilt and even turned to a psychologist. In honor of Keller, his number 23 sweater hung on the bench for the rest of the Swiss Championship games.

Julissa Gomez. An American gymnast suffered a terrible injury during a vault in 1988: at a competition in Japan, she slipped on a springboard and crashed her head into a vault horse.

Julissa was completely paralyzed, her life was supported by resuscitation equipment.

A few days later, another misfortune happened in the hospital where the gymnast was taken: due to a technical malfunction, the artificial respiration apparatus to which Gomez was connected stopped working.

This led to serious brain disorders and a catatonic state. Julissa's family took care of her for three years. In 1991, in Houston, she died of infectious disease at the age of 18.

Brian Clough. On December 26, 1962, the defender of the Bury club, Chris Harker, at full speed, crashed his shoulder into the knee of a football player, as a result of which he received a cruciate ligament rupture - at that time there was no worse injury.

“Almost for the first time in my life I lost my balance and hit my head on the ground,” Brian recalled later. I tried to get up, but I couldn't...

Clough nevertheless returned to the field in September 1964 in a match against Leeds and scored a goal in the first meeting. But he was only enough for three games, after which he decided to leave, became a coach, but at the same time suffered from alcoholism.

Billy Collins Jr. The 21-year-old American boxer was a successful and promising athlete. The fight with Luis Resto was supposed to be another passing fight for him on the way to stronger opponents.

Resto seized the initiative from the very beginning of the fight, Billy did not have time to recover from crushing blows, by the end of the fight he turned into a continuous bloody edema.

The victory was awarded to Resto (pictured), but Collins' father and part-time coach pointed out to the judges that the opponent's gloves were too thin, and demanded to re-check them.

To their horror, before the fight, the soft filler was deliberately removed from the front of Resto's gloves, and the boxing bandages were pre-soaked in a plaster solution: the effect of the blows that Collins missed was comparable to the blows of stones.

Luis Resto (pictured) and his coach went on trial for this act and subsequently went to jail. Collins, on the other hand, received serious facial injuries, primarily the eyes - a rupture of the iris and a fracture of the orbit.

This led to a significant deterioration in vision, and he was unable to return to professional boxing. The injury also affected the mental state of the athlete - he began to drink. Less than a year after the high-profile fight, Collins died in a car accident.

Sergey Pogiba. The winner of the World Cup in sports acrobatics in 1992, during the warm-up of the national championship, tried to perform the second exercise.

The athlete went to the screw-screw, but lost his orientation in the air and landed on his head instead of his legs. The ambulance immediately took him away.

The doctors put terrible diagnosis- fracture of the sixth cervical vertebra. It took a long time to recover after that. Sergei Pogiba was paralyzed, his lower body remains motionless.

Ronnie Zismer. On July 15, 2004, a misfortune happened to a German gymnast who claimed the medals of the 2004 Olympics: during training, the athlete fell and also injured his cervical vertebra.

As a result, the arms and legs of the gymnast were paralyzed. The accident happened while doing floor exercises when Ronnie was doing a double somersault.

In one of the best medical centers in Berlin, they made a disappointing diagnosis: according to the chief doctor of the clinic, Walter Szafartsik, "most likely Ronnie will never be able to move his paralyzed arms and legs."

Doctors' predictions came true - Ronnie Zismer is still chained to wheelchair, however, his hands are not paralyzed and he fights for every millimeter of movement.

As the wife of the boxer Bakanay Abdusalamova said, Magomed understands literally everything, recognizes relatives and friends, tries to speak. Magomed has a good command of his left hand, constantly doing exercises - squeezing a rubber ball, pulling an expander, throwing and catching the ball. The right hand reacts to stimuli, but only the fingers move, and the hand itself is still motionless. The same situation is with the right leg. But Magomed even tries to write with his left hand, although this is not easy for him. The fact is that despite the fact that Magomed is left-handed, before the injury he wrote right hand. Magomed loves to hug children and his wife, sends them kisses.
Magomed pays special attention to his youngest daughter: he calls her to him, hugs her, touches her cheek, does not let her go. Magomed is able to distinguish colors, do arithmetic operations in his mind. The swallowing reflex Lately also improved significantly. So far, doctors allow Magomed's relatives to give him only pieces of ice, but the health workers themselves have already begun to feed him ice cream, yogurt and fruit juice, and Magomed himself is able to hold a spoon in his hand and bring it to his mouth. When the swallowing reflex is restored to the proper extent, doctors will completely refuse to feed through the tube.
Health workers say that the progress of the swallowing reflex is directly related to the progress of the possession of the speech apparatus: when swallowing improves, speech improves. In fact, this is how it happens, because. Magomed has recently begun to pronounce more words, and almost every day the stock of spoken words is expanding.

“Today, when I was leaving home, I asked Magomed what he would like to tell me,” says Bakanai. - He told me “happily”, and then paused and added “drive carefully”. He speaks quietly, but I'm already used to it and understand him very well. Recently, Magomed also feels when he needs to go to the toilet and lets you know about it.

Recall that on November 2, 2013, Magomed Abdusalamov, who at the time of the fight with Peres was ranked fourth in the WBC rating, during the fight received fractures of his left arm, nose, facial bone and a craniocerebral injury, which caused brain swelling and a blood clot.
During the surgical operation to remove the blood clot, part of the boxer's skull was removed to reduce the pressure of the swollen brain on the skull, but unfortunately, by that time there had already been multiple cerebral hemorrhage, which aggravated the already serious condition of the boxer.

After the operation, the doctors put Magomed into a medically induced coma and gave him almost no chance of survival.
Magomed could not breathe on his own, was connected to an artificial life support apparatus and was in a coma for a long time.
After the doctors managed to "wake up" Magomed, his condition began to slowly improve. Periods of improvement alternated with periods of being in a state of crisis, but after the progress became obvious, the doctors transferred Magomed to a specialized rehabilitation center for patients with brain injuries. After that, Magomed underwent an operation to reconstruct the cranium and several other operations. Since then general state boxer is constantly improving.
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MOSCOW, 30 June. /Corr. TASS Igor Lazorin/. Russian boxer who suffered severe injuries and a stroke, began to talk with loved ones. This was reported to TASS by the wife of the athlete Bakanay.

Abdusalamov on November 2, 2013, during a fight with Cuban Mike Perez, received a severe head injury, as well as fractures of his arm and jaw. He was taken to the hospital where he suffered a stroke. The boxer was placed in an artificial coma, in which he remained until December 10 of the same year. The athlete underwent a craniotomy to remove blood clots, and a broken jaw was also operated on. Abdusalamov spent a certain period of time in a rehabilitation center. In mid-September, the athlete was discharged home. Now he takes food on his own, but he still cannot move without help.

“He doesn’t really speak, but I understand him,” said the boxer’s wife. “He speaks quietly, but he tries to do it, although not everything is clear. youngest daughter. She tries to be close to him, to hug him. He smiles when he sees her."

On this moment Abdusalamov's right side of the body is completely paralyzed. "While we have the left side working, the right side is not. I gradually start giving him regular food, although he usually eats everything from a blender. But he looks much better and fresher, he has gained weight well. Maga tries to draw, writes our names. In general , we have progress," the TASS interlocutor added.

The wife of 34-year-old Abdusalamov also noticed that doctors note progress in the athlete's condition, but do not give encouraging forecasts.

“In the beginning, the doctors told us that he would not survive, he would not think,” the boxer’s wife noted. “But I proved the opposite to them. He is getting better. And the doctor said three months ago that he would not be able to walk. But we don’t think about this, we believe in the best. lost eyes, like before. I heard Denis Boytsov (a Russian boxer who is recovering from severe injuries) was told that he would return to normal life and will walk. But if he can, then so can we!

Immediately after the incident, the desire to help Abdusalamov was expressed by world champions Sergey Kovalev, Ruslan Provodnikov, Sultan Ibragimov, Khabib Allahverdiev and Russian promoter Andrei Ryabinsky, who paid for part of the athlete's treatment.

Treatment of Magomed Abdusalamov monthly costs $20-30 thousand

According to a friend of the athlete Amin Suleymanov, treatment and rehabilitation in the United States of Magomed Abdusalamov costs about $ 20-30 thousand a month.

“Now Maga and his family live with me,” said Suleymanov. “At first everyone helped, but now only I am left. While he was in a rehabilitation center, the treatment cost $50,000 a month. Now we take him from home, I spend my money to help Maga. In total, it costs between $ 20-30 thousand. There is city insurance, but it does not cover everything. "

Suleimanov also said that Abdusalamov was delighted when he saw the fight between Russian Alexander Povetkin and Mike Perez. Povetkin knocked out the Cuban in the first round at the end of May.

“I showed him the fight, he understands everything, he recognizes people. He himself was sure that he would knock out Perez. But in the first round Maga had a broken arm, and what could he do? There were no emotions, although he was a little happy," the source said.

Abdusalamov had 19 fights in the professional ring, won 18 victories (all by knockout) and suffered one defeat. He received the World Boxing Council (WBC) champion medal.

Not so long ago, it was considered one of the main hopes of domestic professional boxing in the most prestigious royal weight class heavyweight division. However, the career of this very physically gifted and promising fighter ended at the very take-off, when he was already a couple of steps away from the fight for the world title. In November 2013, at the arena of the Madison Square Garden Theater in New York, a native of the capital of Dagestan, Makhachkala, met in the ring with the hitherto unbeaten Cuban boxer Mike Perez.

The fight took place on a collision course, the rivals often met in open battle. According to the results of 10 rounds allotted by the regulations, Perez was recognized as the winner by unanimous decision of the judges. And after a few hours, the defeat in the ring almost turned into a tragedy. Only the remarkable health of Magomed and the qualifications of doctors saved his life. Abdusalamov managed to get out of the clutches of death, but remained disabled, unable to move independently.

Magomed was born on March 25, 1981. His father Magomedgadzha was a very strong by nature man who was fond of martial arts and became a master of sports of the USSR in freestyle wrestling. It was he who instilled a love for sports and his son. Influenced by Asian martial arts films then fashionable among teenagers, the young Maga tried many types of martial arts. From the age of 12, he began to practice kickboxing, Thai boxing and other oriental disciplines. He became the champion of Russia in them, the finalist of the World Cup. Abdusalamov switched to boxing when he was already 22 years old, because he got a knee injury while practicing Thai boxing. He hoped to improve his handwork while the leg was injured, but he remained in boxing.

Magomed's first coach was Gadzhimurad Gaziev, with whom Abdusalamov became so close that he called the mentor his older brother. Later, his Muay Thai coach was Zaynalbek Zaynalbekov. Evgeny Kotov became the first mentor of Magomed in clean boxing. In amateur boxing, Abdusalamov failed to fully prove himself. His trump cards were power, physical strength and a knockout punch. However, Magomed lacked technical, especially defensive skills precisely because of his late entry into boxing. Nevertheless, he managed to win the Russian adult heavyweight championship twice (in 2005 and 2006).

Abdusalamov had a chance to speak at Olympic Games 2008, but, representing Belarus, lost in the qualifying qualifying tournament to Briton David Price. In total, Magomed has about 50 official fights in the amateur ring. Moreover, as Abdusalamov himself said, at least 95% of amateur victories were won by him ahead of schedule. In September 2008, his professional boxing career began. At first, it was hosted by the famous Russian promoter Yuri Fedorov. Then the American Leon Margules and his "stable" Seminole Warriors Boxing became Magomed's co-promoter. Later, sponsors from Azerbaijan provided financial support to Abdusalamov.

Magomed boxed in Russia, then in the USA. Over time, he moved his family to Florida - his wife and daughters. Abdusalamov completed the first eight pro fights with early victories in the first round. Not much longer, against the Dagestan left-hander, who did not stand out for his elegant and refined technique, but was distinguished by enormous power and lethal striking power, the following rivals also held out. However, in many fights it was noticeable that Abdusalamov often neglects defense, acts too openly, and sometimes even recklessly. Magomed himself then said that in this way he was trying to lure rivals into a trap. They say, in order to lure them out of a deaf defense, you sometimes need to reveal yourself, inviting opponents to attack. But such a tactic was fraught with danger.

And on November 2, 2011, two hitherto unbeaten heavyweight prospects met in the ring - 32-year-old and 28-year-old Cuban Mike Perez. The bookmakers, which happens quite rarely, the chances of both opponents to win were regarded as almost equal. The fight started without any hesitation, from the first round the boxers rushed into a quick exchange of blows, in which, thanks to the best technique and coordination, the Cuban was more successful. But not only did Magomed fail to immediately suppress the opponent’s initiative in his characteristic style, so in this starting three-minute period one of Peres’s blows also broke his left cheekbone (the facial bone under the eye), which immediately began to swell.

However, in the second round, due to greater activity, Abdusalamov looked better than his opponent. And in the next few three minutes, the initiative passed from one to another. But after the equator of the fight, Abdusalamov's face began to swell more and more, a cut formed over the same left eye, but most importantly, he began to get tired and decently slow down. Perez, on the other hand, turned out to be a strong fellow, and even frankly missed series of blows did not bother him. The Cuban continued to rush forward, although he was able to work well from a long distance. In the ninth round, the referee deducted one point from Perez for a low blow. Nevertheless, this did not prevent the Cuban from bringing the fight to victory on points by unanimous decision of the judges - 95-94, 97-92, 97-92.

A few hours after the end of the battle, the situation began to develop dramatically. Abdusalamov, who received serious injuries, began to complain of a severe headache and was hospitalized with a diagnosis of cerebral hemorrhage at the Roosevelt Medical Center in New York. Doctors urgently performed a craniotomy on Magomed and put him in a state of artificial coma in order to avoid possible brain damage from the formation of a blood clot. However, four days later, Abdusalamov suffered a stroke. Doctors were forced to perform an operation to remove a blood clot from the brain, and also removed part of the skull so that the swelling subsided.

A little later it became known that Magomed's family did not have money to cover the huge bills for his treatment and stay in the hospital. And here patrons from the world of boxing came to the rescue, including some current and former boxers. 20 days after the ill-fated battle, Abdusalamov was briefly brought out of an artificial coma. But only on December 6, that is, more than a month later, Magomed finally came out of a coma and began to breathe on his own. And four days later he was transferred from intensive care to a regular ward.

In 2014, Abdusalamov, who lost a lot of weight, was transferred to a rehabilitation center, where he began a long period of recovery. We must pay tribute to the wife of Magomed, Bakanay Abdusalamova, who all this time devotedly takes care of her husband who has lost the ability to move independently and makes titanic efforts for his successful rehabilitation. However, the brain damage turned out to be so serious that the boxer's recovery process could take long years. Last summer, Magomed began to talk quietly with his family. Unfortunately, doctors say that the right side of his body will forever remain paralyzed. However, Bakanay believes that one day her husband will get on his feet, walk independently and lead a more or less fulfilling life.

The editors of the "Championship" congratulate Magomed on his birthday and wish him a speedy recovery!