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UK boxer Blackwell in coma after loss

Boxer Nick Blackwell has suffered bleeding on the brain during a middleweight bout with Chris Eubank Jr in London, leaving him in an induced coma.

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British middleweight boxer Nick Blackwell remains in an induced coma following his defeat to Chris Eubank Jr.

The 25-year-old suffered bleeding on the brain after the fight was stopped in the 10th round on Saturday.

The stoppage came after a ringside doctor advised the referee that Blackwell was unable to see through his left eye.

He was carried out of the Wembley Arena on a stretcher.

"He's in intensive care, he's in an induced coma and he is resting and being looked after by the experts," British Boxing Board of Control general secretary Robert Smith said on Sunday.

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"It's a very normal procedure. They put you in a coma to get the swelling to go down. There's no time scale. Now it's just a matter of waiting and seeing."


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