Very sad to report the passing of super lightweight boxer Hugo “Dinamita” Santillan, who has passed away five days after collapsing in the ring following a bout Saturday night in San Nicolas, Argentina. The 23-year-old Santillan battled to a draw with Eduardo Abreu, but while the cards were being read, he collapsed and was rushed to the hospital. He had a record of 19-6-2 with 8 KOs. This is the second ring tragedy this week. R.I.P.
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Bad week. Rest in peace Hugo. Thoughts go out to your family and friends.
I saw the decision on video. It is sad about this. I am not sure there is ever a solution. Guys should stop cutting so much weight for a weight class. You can say there should be no more 12 round fights. But this fight was a 10 round fight. I think the larger gloves was kind of a good idea. Everyting over 130 is 10 ounce gloves. Everything over 175 is 12 ounce gloves. But it is probably not a solution. I think 8 round fight would probably reduce a lot of this. And the glove size is kind of a set thing, as well as guys cutting weight. They are going to do that and much much more that they can get away with. Maybe more weigh ins the morning of a fight, so that they won’t want to cut as much weight for weight class. But I am sad for this man and for brutal boxing is. You never know about a punch hitting you if that is the one that will cause a brain bleed. And usually it doesn’t end well. Usually it is accumulation of punches that do people in, usually after 5 rounds, maybe a lot of times after 8 or 9 rounds. That is why a guy with a lot of amateur experience and goes pro, but that is not a guarantee they will never end up with a brain bleed in long distance fights. People think an amateur with a long amateur record probably won’t end up with a brain bleed as a pro, at least if they retire at a reasonable age. But guys in their 20s, guys in their 30s, guys in their early 40s, they all end up with subdural hematomas.
I would argue we have too much padding in the gloves now as it is. This allows someone to continue to take a beating for too long and end up with the brain bleeds you speak of. There is a reason you don’t see all these deaths in MMA. The padding on their gloves are just enough to keep them from breaking their knuckles, and when one of them gets hit flush it’s over. They don’t take the repeated hits like boxers do. If anything, boxing should go back to six ounce gloves.
I once spoke to former top lightweight pro Kenny Lane about glove size. Lane had 100 pro bouts and he had the exact opinion as Ryan expressed. Larger gloves prolong beatings and injuries.
All these extra weight classes dosen’t help either-too many trying to fit into unnatural divisions for them.
No jokes on this.
THIS FUCKING SUCKS !!!
FUCK