Heavyweight Contender Boytsov, like Amtrak, Tragedy on the Train Tracks
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Berlin, Germany (May 14th, 2015)– Sometimes life is like a train wreck, a tragedy on the tracks, when everything which was supposed to go so right winds up going so wrong. Boxing is a great deal like life, which often takes wrong turns on the road to what should have been paradise. Earlier this week, this reporter noted the tragic death of Tony Ayala Jr., the junior middleweight champion who never was. After serving 26 of the last 31 years in prison for various offenses, Ayala was free for only a year before he was found dead on the floor of his late father Tony Ayala Sr.’s Zarzagoza Street boxing gym where he was training young fighters. It was cruel. Tony survived so much and overcame his inner demons to have died so young and ironically at age 52. Few boxers die so tragically in the gym like Tony did.
Tuesday’s tragedy in Philadelphia left eight people dead, with hundreds more injured and hospitalized when an Amtrak derailed. More than a week earlier, a tragedy on train tracks in Berlin, Germany, was called an accident by police. Boxer Denis Boytsov’s wife disagrees.
Former World Boxing Organization number one heavyweight contender Denis Boytsov was found with serious head and hand injuries in a Berlin train tunnel, and placed in a medically induced coma due to swelling of his brain. While German authorities are calling it an accident due to alcoholism, others are saying he was the victim of an attack related to his boxing career, as Boytsov, 36-1 with 27 knockouts, was receiving threats constantly.
Boytsov’s wife Ola Litvinova has pointed to Boytsov’s move from Universum promoters to Saunderland Event in 2013, blowing his mandatory shot at WladimirKlitschko which would have been worth mega millions. Leapai, the mandatory WBO challenger for the world heavyweight title, fighting instead in Germany and his new promoter and losing by ten round decision to Alex Leapai of Australia.Leapai is fighting Manuel Charr soon.
Boytsov’s adviser Gagik Khachatrian was beaten by unknown thugs, and Universum promoter Waldemar Kluch, who had threatened Boytsov, spent three years in prison. He was recently released. Kluch called Boytsov a drunk, and stated Boytsov left him as a pro mo ter due to his alcoholism. Khachatryan did not expect Boytsov to be awakened form his coma for several weeks. Boytsov’s medical condition and prognosis will to be known for at least another week. His injuries, despite a medically induced coma, are not life threatening.
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