Victor Burgos

Mexican boxer Victor Burgos, who suffered a brutal loss to Australia's Vic Darchinyan on the weekend, is making positive progress in a California hospital. Burgos underwent emergency brain surgery after being carried from the ring on a stretcher and rushed to the Los Angeles County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center on Saturday night.

A spokesperson for Burgos' promoter, Don King, said the fighter awoke from a coma today.

"He woke up and is reacting to doctors," the spokesperson said.

Doctors rated him in a stable condition. Burgos, a 32-year-old veteran of 57 professional bouts, was dominated by Sydney's Darchinyan in their International Boxing Federation flyweight world-title bout at LA's Home Depot Center.

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Burgos, a former IBF light flyweight champion, had a blood clot removed from his head and was placed into a medically induced coma after Saturday night's loss.

Source.




UPDATE (from a barely-decipherable dispatch on Boxeomundial.net:)

Word is that the ex-champ from Tijuana is slipping fast.

Here's hoping that journalistic integrity at BM is as sloppy as it seems.



SECOND UPDATE (March 7, 10:50am CST) from PressTelegram.com:

Burgos has come out of a post-surgery, medically-induced coma and is responding to commands given by doctors at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance.

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"Doctors have reported that Burgos successfully answered a few verbal commands, like, `If you can hear me, move your toes,' and, `If you can hear me, move your fingers,"' Hopper said.

Hopper described this news as "very positive."