Boxer Carl Wright will remain on a life support machine and be unconscious for at least a week after emergency surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain. The 28-yearold Liverpudlian collapsed while on the way home after losing on points to Northern Ireland's Mark Winters in Sheffield on Saturday night. The British lightwelterweight title bout was on the undercard of Naseem Hamed's World Boxing Organisation world featherweight title defence.
Wright remains in a stable but critical condition and in intensive care according to a spokesman for the Walton Hospital on Merseyside. The boxer's family have requested that no further information be released by the hospital.
His brother, professional middleweight Paul Wright, says he will never box again. "I couldn't put our family through this kind of pain again," he said.
After neurosurgery of this type, the patient is normally kept under sedation and unconscious while the recovery process begins.
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Irish amateur boxers won two gold medals and one bronze at the prestigious Wiener Neustadt tournament in Vienna at the weekend. Lightweight Eugene McEneaney from Dundalk and welterweight Billy Cowan from the Monkstown club in Belfast took gold, and Liam Cunningham, a lightweight from Belfast's Saints club, won bronze. The Irish squad was also named as the best in the tournament.
