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Frida Wallberg in a Coma, Life Saved by Opposing Corner

By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent

Stockholm, Sweden (June 16th, 2013)–World Boxing Council Female Super Featherweight champion Frida Wallberg of Sweden, unbeaten and ranked number one by BoxRec, was knocked out and lost her WBC world title in an upset to Diana Prazak, 33, an Australian fighting out of Los Angeles, California, on Friday, June 14, 2013, in the ring at the Waterfront Congress SAS Radisson Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden.

Prazak staggered Wallberg in the seventh, knocked her down with a left hook in the eighth, and then knocked the 11-0 Wallberg out with a right hook after she got up. The bout was waved off by referee Bela Florian. The ringside physician, who appeared inexperienced, examined Wallberg and then left ringside, but was called back by Prazak’s trainer Lucia Rijker. To Rijker, trainer in the opposing corner, it appeared Wallberg, slumping and hanging over the ropes with her nose bleeding, was in very serious trouble, and demanded Wallberg be taken immediately on a stretcher to Karolinska Institutet Hospital in Stockholm. Thanks to the intuition, instincts and experience of an experienced trainer, Wallberg’s life was saved.

Unfortunately, the ex-world champion Frida Wallberg is not out of danger. Wallberg incurred a cerebral hemorrhage and brain stroke, and underwent emergency brain surgery at the hospital in Stockholm in the early hours Saturday. She remains unconscious in critical condition in a medically induced coma.

Wallberg, 30, is from Gothenburg, Sweden, the same city as the late former heavyweight champion Ingemar Johannson (1932-2009), who held the world title from June 1959 to June 1960. His final professional record was 26-2. Johansson suffered from dementia and Alzheimer’s disease from the mid 1990’s until his death, and lived in a nursing home in Kungsbacka after his health began to deteriorate.

Wallberg will not be able to box again professionally in Sweden in accordance with the rules governing injured boxers in Sweden after incurring an injury of this type.

The Wallberg versus Prazak world title bout was billed as being for the WBC, IBF and WIBA world titles. Prazak last held the WIBA Super Featherweight title when she defended it in April 2012. However, only the WBC Female World Super Featherweight title was sanctioned for this bout.

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