Chapman had collapsed after training<\/a> and was taken to hospital after Scott called for an ambulance, to be later diagnosed with a brain haematoma and cerebral oedema.<\/p>\n“I remember the final spar where it happened, It was the third spar of the week and I felt fine going in there,” she told BBC South Today.<\/p>\n
“It was just a sort of freak injury that I never thought it would happen to me, we (herself and Scott) have done hundreds of sparring rounds together and my fights. <\/p>\n
“He knows the kind of things that I say and I wasn’t acting myself from what he said, that’s when he called an ambulance before anything even happened. <\/p>\n
“I sat down and then it all sort of happened after that, luckily with where I was at the time, I think in under an hour from when the ambulance was called I was then into surgery.”<\/p>\n
After reaching hospital, the procedure Chapman underwent successfully stemmed the bleeding in her brain and helped to stabilise the swelling.<\/p>\n
A fundraiser was then launched online for people to contribute towards getting her back to the UK and her long-term recovery. <\/p>\n
A total of \u00a397,792 was donated after the page was shared widely among the boxing community on social media.<\/p>\n
Chapman’s promoters Queensberry, Matchroom Boxing’s Eddie Hearn and Most Valuable Promotions’ Nakisa Bidarian were among the leading donors.<\/p>\n
“All the support that I got was just amazing,” Chapman added.<\/p>\n
“That’s why, with all the fundraising money, I’m going to use that to make sure I’m getting everything so that I get better as that’s why people donated.<\/p>\n
“It brings a tear to your eye when you see it and how much people are there for you in the community, it’s a special world, the boxing world.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boxer Raven Chapman believes the fast actions of trainer Stuart Scott may have saved her life when she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-944396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}