Patrick Day passed away October 16th, four days after being knocked out in a fight with former Olympian Charles Conwell. Day was only 27 years old.
Dr. Jonathan Gelber, orthopedic surgeon and author, discusses boxing fatalities in his latest book, Tiger Woods’s Back and Tommy Johns’s Elbow: Injuries and Tragedies that Transformed Careers, Sports, and Injuries. Dr. Gelber discusses in detail the death of Duk-koo Kim, a Korean fighter who succumbed to TBI after a long and brutal fight with Ray Mancini. In the wake of Kim’s death, boxing famously shortened championship fights from 15 to 12 rounds.