Mexican boxer dies from injuries

There’s something truly horrifying in this video from last Saturday’s boxing match between junior welterweights Omar Chavez and Marco Antonio Nazareth.

The 23-year-old Nazareth died four days later at a hospital in Puerto Vallarta as the result of a brain hemorrhage sustained in the loss to Chavez, the son of former champion Julio Cesar Chavez.

It’s a tragic loss, sad, regrettable. What makes it even worse is that, as this video shows, Nazareth wasn’t knocked out during the fight, there was no single killer punch. You can actually see him finish the fight, sit on his stool in the corner, take a drink from a water bottle and then gradually slip into unconsciousness. The repeated punishment his brain took, during the fight, during training, during previous fights, it all adds up and in this case the bill was as steep as it comes.