Prichard Colon, who suffered a severe brain injury during a 2015 fight, has died aged 33, his father Richard confirmed on social media.<\/p>\n
Colon collapsed in his changing room after the fight with Terrell Williams, during which he complained about repeated punches to the back of his head<\/p>\n
The Puerto Rican had suffered a brain haemorraghe and after having an operation to reduce brain swelling he was placed in a coma for 221 days.<\/p>\n
Colon lived the rest of his life in a vegetative state – unable to walk or talk – and required 24-hour care.<\/p>\n
“Good morning, my people. I regret to inform you of the departure of my son Prichard from this earthly world,” Richard Colon wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n
“Now he is in a better world. I did everything possible to fulfil his wish, his dream of bringing him on vacation to Puerto Rico as he so desired, but it couldn’t be done.<\/p>\n
“Thank you for so many years of love and prayers. As much as you can, please keep us in your prayers.”<\/p>\n
Colon was undefeated in 16 fights with 13 wins by knockout before facing Williams in Fairfax, Virginia.<\/p>\n
During the light-middleweight contest, Colon appeared to be struck in the back of the head on several occasions and Williams was deducted a point for illegal blows.<\/p>\n
Colon was later docked two points for a low blow and was knocked down in the ninth. Believing the fight was over, Colon’s corner team removed his gloves and he was disqualified.<\/p>\n
His parents filed a lawsuit seeking more than $50m (\u00a337m) in damages against the ringside doctor and promoters connected with the fight.<\/p>\n
That lawsuit remains unsettled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prichard Colon, who suffered a severe brain injury during a 2015 fight, has died aged 33, his father…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-592954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}