Boxer Patrick Day has died today Wednesday after he sustained brain injuries during a violent knockout loss on Saturday.
He was 27 years.
Patrick Day was put into a coma on Saturday after he was brutally knocked out by 21-year-old rising star Charles Conwell during Saturday’s fight at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago.
Day (17-4-1) was knocked down 3 times — once in the 4th, again in the 8th and finally in the 10th.
The final knockdown was particularly brutal — Day’s head bounced off the canvas and the ref immediately stopped the fight.
Medical personnel rushed into the ring, Day was taken out of the ring in a stretcher and loaded into an ambulance which transported him to a nearby hospital.
Fellow American Conwell, 21, wrote an emotional letter to Day following the fight.
“I never meant this to happen to you, all I wanted to do was win,” he said.
“If I could take it all back, I would. No-one deserves this to happen to them.”
