Boxer Showing Dramatic Improvement
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Kid Akeem Anifowoshe, who lapsed into a coma after losing a bloody International Boxing Federation junior bantamweight title fight last week in San Antonio, has shown dramatic improvement and has not lost any of his mental faculties, his doctor said.
“It’s a surprise for him to survive,” Dr. Gerardo Zavala said. “When he came to the hospital, I thought he was going to be dead. Now it looks like his mental faculties are there. I think everything is going to be OK.”
Anifowoshe, a 21-year-old Nigerian fighting out of Las Vegas, suffered trauma to the brain during his defeat by IBF champion Robert Quiroga.
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