A Boxing Trainer Who abadons the sport, claimed it to be a blood sucking sport

Patrick Day’s long-time trainer Joe Higgins sent a
text to ESPN before the 27-year-old (patrick day) American died,
saying he felt responsible for the boxer’s
hospitalization.

Day died on Wednesday from injuries sustained
during a fight against Charles Conwell in Chicago
on Saturday.

Day was knocked down in fourth, eighth, and 10th
round, after which he needed oxygen treatment in
the ring. He had seizures in an ambulance en route
to hospital, had emergency brain surgery, and was
in a coma ever since.

Promoter Lou DiBella confirmed his death on
Wednesday evening.

Higgins, a former firefighter, met Day in New York
when he was just 14, and subsequently invited him
to train at the gym he owns, Freeport PAL.

He went on to oversee Day’s career, from his first
amateur fight until his last on Saturday.

Days after his prodigy’s hospitalization,Higgins sent
a text to ESPN .

“I’m dying,”

he said.

“I feel like I’m
responsible, like I let him down. My special kid.

He then said he would shun the sport of boxing
forever

“In honor of Patrick Day, no one’s going to
hit the last bag he hit, or spar in the last ring he
sparred in. I’m not even donating it. That stuff’s
going somewhere no one can ever find it again.
That’s just the way I feel.
“I’m never watching another boxing match. I’m
never training another kid. I’m never going to put
another kid in danger of a punch. Ever.
“Boxing sucks!!. It’s a bloodsucker sport.”

Day’s opponent, Charles Conwell, had also
expressed regret.

He said

“I never meant this to happen to you, all I wanted to
do was win,”

said Conwell in a letter on Tuesday ,

a day prior to Day’s passing. “If I could take it all
back, I would. No-one deserves this to happen to
them.”