Emanuel Augustus Lives: Miracle Comeback of The Boxing Drunken Master
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
The Drunken Master, Emanuel Augustus, is smiling and walking again, breathing on his own, with dreams of someday returning to the ring. This would seem to be impossible, but the fighting spirit of The Drunken Master has done what no fighter has ever done. Inside the ring and out, The Drunken Master has proven to be unpredictable.
The Chicago super lightweight with the strange dancing and taunting style, Augustus has a career record of 38-34-6 with 20 knockouts between 1994 and 2011. Augustus had been contemplating a comeback at his longtime gym in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when he was shot in the head on the evening of October 13, 2014, near the gym by a stray bullet fired during an unrelated domestic dispute between two cousins. A suspect, Christopher Stills, 21, who does not know Augustus, was subsequently arrested and charged with second degree attempted murder, possession of a handgun, and illegal possession of a weapon.
Augustus was in critical condition on a breathing machine unconscious, and no hope seemed to be the verdict. The Dragon Master simply refused to die, however. Eventually, in an existence defying medical prognosis and odds, he miraculously regained consciousness, began to breathe on his own, stood up and walked away from his own deathbed.
The road ahead for a full recovery for The Dragon Master is still a long one, but it is no longer a long shot. As colorful and flamboyant as ever, Emanuel Augustus has made the greatest comeback the boxing world has ever seen in life. He came back from the dead.
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