For 5 years of professional boxing, heavyweight Magomed Abdusalamov has never lost; the boxer won all his victories exclusively by knockout and mainly in the early stages of the fight. Only in November 2013, luck left Magomed - he not only lost to the enemy (albeit on points), but also ended up in the hospital the next day with a blood clot in the brain.
Magomed was born in Makhachkala, Dagestan; he was the eldest son in the family and was brought up in full accordance with the strict tenets of the Muslim faith. Magomed's father was well aware that in the unstable situation that existed in the country at that time, the boy had every chance of contacting crime; Abdusalamov Sr. decided to protect his son from the wrong life choices with the help of sports. The idea turned out to be extremely successful - the young man showed outstanding athletic ability. Magomed proved to be a talented boxer even when he was an amateur - so, in 2005 and 2006, he managed to win a convincing victory at the Russian heavyweight championship.
Alas, even despite such brilliant achievements, Abdusalamov for some time remained in the shadow of a more famous and successful
another fighter, Islam Timurziev; as a result, Abdusalamov could not even dream of entering the international level.
In 2008, Abdusalamov took part in qualifying competitions The Olympics, however, Magomed failed to get out of the qualification - the Englishman David Price stood in his way, eventually taking bronze.
In 2008, Magomed retrained as a professional; he won his first eight fights by knockout in the first round. On the this moment Abdusalamov has 18 wins (all 18 by knockout) and 1 defeat. Relatively quick knockout victories to this day are a kind of trademark of Magomed Abdusalamov.
At the end of 2011, Magomed defeated American boxer Rich Power; his opponent Magom
d knocked out in the third round.
In February 2012, Abdusalamov defeated the American Pedro Rodriguez, who had not previously known defeat. The Russian won his next victory over the American Jason Pettaway; this time, the opponent managed to hold out against Abdusalamov for more than three rounds - and only in the fourth did he go for a knockout. The next opponent of Magomed, the American Maurice Byarm, failed to repeat Pettaway's original record and was knocked out in the second round.
In September 2012, Abdusalamov went to fight with Jameel McCline; the fight turned out to be extremely tense, although rather short - in the first round Magomed for the first time in his professional career sent
I'm knocked down. Having come to his senses, Abdusalamov managed to turn the tide - by the end of the first round, he won back the lost initiative, and at the end of the second, he himself sent the opponent to a knockdown. McCline managed to get up, but the referee considered it reasonable to stop the fight - with which Jamil did not argue. As it turned out later, Magomed did not come out in the best shape for the fight with McCline - even before the fight he broke a rib and did not have time to completely heal the injury.
In March 2013, Puerto Rican Victor Bisbal came out against Magomed. Again, Abdusalamov had a much harder time than expected - Bisbal clearly dominated the first two rounds. The third and fourth rounds for Magomed went to change the situation; in the fifth, he sent the opponent to a knockout. The victory brought Magomed 3rd place in the WBC rankings.
In 2013, Abdusalamov lost on points to Cuban boxer Mike Perez. The mere fact that they managed to defeat Magomed Abdusalamov was in itself a surprise for boxing fans - for Magomed this was the first defeat. The Cuban failed to knock out the opponent, but Perez was awarded the victory on points. The affairs of the Russian boxer did not work out from the very beginning - an unsuccessful blow to the Cuban's head cost Magomed an injury to his left hand. Later, Perez further aggravated the situation by breaking Abdusalamov's nose.
The resulting injuries, however, by the standards of this sport did not seem particularly serious. After the fight, Magomed underwent a routine medical examination; the doctors did not find anything suspicious, and Abdusalamov himself did not complain about anything. Boxer feeling
l behaved quite normally and even found the strength to talk to reporters.
As it turned out later, the defeat itself was by no means the main problem of Magomed - the next morning the boxer began to have severe headaches. Abdusalamov was sent to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with a blockage in one of the blood vessels in his brain. To minimize the harmful effects of this blockage, it was decided to put Magomed into an artificial coma.
The surgeons managed to cope with the operation - a blood clot potentially life-threatening for Abdusalamov was successfully removed. Nothing threatens the boxer's health at the moment; apparently, Magomed will not even lose coordination of movements. Now together with the boxer in New York are his father Magomed Magomedgadzhi and brother Abdusalam
Having suffered severe injuries and a stroke, he began to talk with loved ones. This was announced by the athlete's wife Bakanay. On November 2, 2013, during a duel with Cuban Mike Perez, Magomed received a severe head injury, as well as fractures of his arm and jaw. He was taken to the hospital where he suffered a stroke. The boxer was placed in an artificial coma, in which he remained until December 10 of the same year. The athlete underwent a craniotomy to remove blood clots, and a broken jaw was also operated on. Abdusalamov spent a certain period of time in a rehabilitation center.
In mid-September, the athlete was discharged home. Now he takes food on his own, but he still cannot move without help. “He doesn’t really speak, but I understand him,” said the boxer’s wife. - He speaks quietly, but tries to do it, although not everything is clear. I am his translator. In general, for him a great medicine is our youngest daughter. She tries to be close to him, to hug him. He smiles when he sees her."
At the moment, Abdusalamov is completely paralyzed right part organism. "While we are working left-hand side, right - no. I gradually start to give him regular food, although he usually eats everything from a blender. But he looks much better and fresher, gained weight well. Maga tries to draw, writes our names. In general, we have progress,” Bakanai added.
The wife of 34-year-old Abdusalamov also noticed that doctors note progress in the athlete's condition, but do not give encouraging forecasts. “In the beginning, the doctors told us that he would not survive, would not think,” the boxer's wife said. But I proved them wrong. He gets better. A doctor three months ago said that he would not be able to walk. But we do not think about it, we believe in the best. He doesn't have the lost eyes he used to. I heard Denis Boytsov (a Russian boxer who is recovering from severe injuries) was told that he would return to normal and walk. But if he can, then so can we!”
Immediately after the incident, the desire to help Abdusalamov was expressed by world champions Sergey Kovalev, Ruslan Provodnikov, Sultan Ibragimov, Khabib Allahverdiev and Russian promoter Andrei Ryabinsky, who paid for part of the athlete's treatment.
According to a friend of the athlete Amin Suleymanov, treatment and rehabilitation in the United States of Magomed Abdusalamov costs about $20-30 thousand a month. “Now Maga and his family live with me,” said Suleymanov. - At first everyone helped, but now only I am left. While he was in rehab, treatment cost $50,000 a month. Now we are taking him from home, I am using my money to help Maga. In total, it takes between $20,000-30,000. There is city insurance, but it does not cover everything.”
The wife of the Dagestan boxer Magomed Abdusalamov in an interview with MI about how she raises her husband after an injury received in the ring, millions and two hours won in court, which turned the life of the Abdusalamov family upside down.
A LITTLE BACKGROUND
Dagestan heavyweight Magomed Abdusalamov became famous in 2005, having won the Russian heavyweight champion title in the amateur ring. Not getting to the Olympics in Beijing, he went professional. Over the next five years, the boxer spent 17 fights and won everything ahead of schedule. He fought very spectacularly, often taking risks and completely forgetting about defense.
At the beginning of 2013, Magomed rose to fourth place in the WBC rankings and began to be considered as a contender for a fight against the Ukrainian world champion. Vitali Klitschko. His new opponent was a Cuban Mike Perez.
In a fight with Peres, Abdusalamov suffered his first defeat in the professional ring. Magomed received fractures of his left arm, nose, facial bone and a craniocerebral injury, which resulted in cerebral edema and a blood clot. After the fight, the boxer complained of pain in his head, but the doctors refused hospitalization, and Magomed had to get to the hospital on his own. Time was lost ... A few hours later, Abdusalamov was put into an artificial coma. A few days later, he suffered a stroke. It was reported that the boxer has almost no chance of survival, but he is alive and has already begun to speak.
After tragic event the Abdusalamov family sued the state of New York, accusing the doctors of negligence and unprofessionalism, and won $22 million in damages. The trial lasted (and continues to last) for almost four years, and all this time, his wife and three daughters remain next to the heavyweight, nicknamed Mago.
"HE IS LIKE A CHILD"
- Bakanay, first of all, I want to take an interest in the state of Magomed. How does he feel at present? What has changed since our last conversation two years ago?
– In two years, of course, we have progressed. He now remembers everything, tries to talk, of course, not the way we do, but he tries. Often in the comments on Instagram they ask if he recognizes friends, relatives. Yes, he knows everyone. But we (meaning Magomed) have problems with movement, his right side also does not work, his left side is very strong, we do not stand, do not sit and do not walk. He eats almost on his own, but we give him food that is not quite ordinary - more crushed. Yes, and you can not leave him unattended while eating, he is like a child - he can choke.
Doctors told us at the very beginning that he would not even be able to see, but he sees, he thinks. I emphasize that this is an area of the brain and when problems with it, a person can be very unpredictable - now he can behave well, but after five minutes his mood changes dramatically. Sometimes it happened that he did not sleep all night, and there were night “whims”, but now the doctor prescribed a sedative, and it became calmer.
– How do you communicate? Do you have any sign language?
- Not. We talk to him and he answers us. I understand him for a long time, I got used to it. But sometimes you don’t even need to speak, he can just show with his hand. Four and a half years have already passed ... I do not separate him from the family, my daughters are also drawn to their father. They come from school - they kissed dad, they go to bed - they kissed dad. Sometimes I even ask Magi: “Did they kiss you?”, He answers: “No”, and the daughters again run to him. Then we start joking, Maga says that no one kissed him and the daughters have to run to their father again. He likes to play. He calls me "princess", and I call him "sun". That's how we all (laughs).
"THE YOUNGER DAUGHTER DOESN'T EVEN REMEMBER HIS FATHER HEALTHY"
By the way, about daughters. You and Magomed have three of them, and the youngest Patimat was barely a year old when such a misfortune happened in the family. When she asked about her father, what did you say to her?
She is still small, on the first of January she turned five years old. She probably doesn't even know what's wrong with her father. You know, she doesn’t even remember her dad healthy, although her father’s attention was always on her, all those ten months. We were expecting a son, but when she was born Patya- The magician directly did not look for souls in her. He always took it from me. We have a million photos where Patya is in his arms. Maybe she thinks this is how it should be, I can't read her childish thoughts.
- And what are the thoughts of the older daughters?
– Now the hardest is the average Saigibat. Older Shahrizat We have the most sensitive, but already reconciled. For the past six months, they have not said anything, although earlier the eldest asked: “When dad recovers, will he go to box? When will he start walking? Shahrizat does not ask questions, because he is very worried about me. But sometimes, in a conversation with an assistant, she boasts of her father, recalls that he constantly took them somewhere. Maga once told me that Shakhrizat came up to him and said: “Daddy, don’t make noise today, please, otherwise it’s hard for mom.”
And the second girl we have with character, she won’t tell me anything either, but I heard her say the other day Aine(daughter of assistant Bakanay) that she was very lucky with her dad, because he walks and can walk with her. (At this moment, the younger Patimat enters the room and hands her mother a drawing depicting dad, mom and three daughters). I felt sorry for her. In fact, they have a golden dad. He, despite his profession, devoted all his free time to his daughters. We still walk with the whole family, but, you see, this is not what it used to be.
"BOXING WAS MY HUSBAND'S JOB"
- And how does Magomed spend the day?
“We used to go to training every day, now it’s a little different. We get up in the morning, I take the children to school. At 8:20 I am already at home, I go into his room, and Maga has already woken up. I go up, hug him and, if I have the opportunity, ask him to guard me while I sleep. Of course, he agrees, but sometimes, if he suddenly becomes bored, he wakes me up himself. And then we have breakfast, get dressed and, if there is a workout, we go to the gym. Then we come home, have lunch, he will sit in a chair for a while. If we don’t go out for a walk, then he watches movies, fights. Sometimes we go to the pool. Every day is different. Oh, and one more thing, Mage is given acupuncture three times a week, and on the weekends a massage therapist comes to us.
- Magomed watches fights?
– Yes, he mainly watches our fighters in the UFC, supports Khabiba Nurmagomedova.
- And you? How would you react to a boxing match if you happened to see it?
- Sometimes it happens, but I don’t watch it purposefully, I just sometimes come across it on TV. How to react? It was the work of my husband, everyone does what he likes. Some work as policemen and die in gunfights, others work as construction workers and are crippled, but this does not mean that you need to hate the police and construction. He liked doing it. And what happened is the fault of the doctors.
“DO THEY THINK I NEED THIS MONEY?”
- By the way, about the fault of doctors. Can we talk about the course of the court case now?
- Of course, it is already known that we won the trial, but the process is still ongoing, not all doctors have been punished. But, I would like to emphasize with two red lines that the 22 million dollars that the court ordered to pay to our family are not in my hands.
To the people who have already converted these dollars into Russian rubles and have begun to resent that many patients can be cured with this money, I want to briefly explain that no one has given us the money, it is on our account. Nearly half of the money went to pay lawyers and pay off millions of dollars in medical bills. From this account, we are paid every month for his rehabilitation center, school for children, food. That is, a certain amount is allocated for life. And all through checks.
- Did I understand correctly? Do people think that you live with Magomed because of money?
- It turns out that way. Do they really think that I need this money? Yes, I would refuse them and pay the same amount more if they could return my Magomed to me. So I want to explain to these people that happiness is not in money. Happiness is that your relatives are healthy and are near. It is better to live as an ordinary person in Makhachkala, in a rented apartment and work as a taxi driver, but be surrounded by your family. There is no price for the health of a loved one. Maybe for some, a husband is just a husband, and a wife is just a person preparing food, but we ... our relationship was completely different. I cannot be happy with money when my husband is in such a state. I would give anything, even a kidney (smiles) to return Magomed and the brother she had lost.
- And who are these people who count your money? Followers inInstagram?
- Yes, I read all the comments (today, the number of Bakanay followers on Instagram reaches 236 thousand. - Note. ed.). I don’t care what ill-wishers write, but it sometimes hurts a lot. I am not iron and the fact that I often post our happy photos with him does not mean that everything is so good with us. Yes, and in appearance they often pass, for some reason it seems to most subscribers that I have ceased to be a woman and have no right to look beautiful. There are even rumors that I have done more than one plastic surgery, but I want to answer everyone at once - this is not true.
When I complained to my husband, he said: "They are just jealous of you." He always tells everyone that I am his savior, he does not hesitate to kiss my hands right in the rehabilitation center, even the nurses are outraged. With all this, what can I prove to people when I have such a husband?
One in general, can you imagine, wrote "I would like such a rich invalid." I got very upset when I read this. How can you say so? Others write "I took care of my grandmother, there is nothing complicated about it." If you did this, then you would not condemn the work of others. Anyone who takes care of a sick person for at least a couple of days understands what it is like. hard work. You know, I could now look after several elderly people, but not for my husband, who has always been a support for me and had to take care of me himself.
"TWO HOURS TURNED OUR LIFE"
- Let's go back to the court ... In general, for you, Bakanay, this court was a desire to restore justice so that other athletes would not become victims of medical negligence?
- First, of course, these people need to be punished. Because if the doctors had taken up Magomed immediately after the fight, he would have gone to the hospital, would have rested for several days, or I don’t know ... The fact is that all this would not have happened. They had to be punished, so that not only they, but also other doctors knew that it was impossible to treat athletes so negligently, because their families, parents, and children were waiting for them at home.
What did it cost them to take him to the hospital? These two hours have changed our lives. It's very hard ... Everyone, seeing my smile, thinks that I'm so easy on this, but they don't see how I suffer.
And, secondly, of course, we needed funds for the rehabilitation of my husband. I must be sure that tomorrow I will be able to continue the treatment of Magomed. How else? Where will I get the money from? We owe millions of dollars, where would I find them?
That is, we punished the doctors and found the means for treatment. Of course, the money did not return my husband. But this precedent has changed a lot, the rules in boxing have changed, insurance for athletes has been raised. Now, at the slightest injury, a boxer is removed from the fight and taken to the hospital. It's a shame that it was we who became an example, but since this happened, at least other families will not suffer.
- The fault of the doctors is really there. But how, in your opinion, is Magomed himself guilty of what happened? After all, he could simply refuse to continue that ill-fated battle.
– My Maga is not to blame, he is always right (smiles). If you didn't stop, then you did the right thing. In general, the mentality of our men is such that they cannot simply take and pass. Magomed would never have allowed himself such a thing, but if the doctors had told him about the consequences, he would, of course, have gone to the hospital. The fact is that the doctors allowed him to fight, and Magomed was sure that he was doing well.
"THEY DID NOT BELIEVE THE MAGA WOULD SURVIVE"
- At the very beginning of the treatment, the doctors did not give Magomed any chances, but now progress, as they say, is evident. Maga can already move and eat almost independently. But what if the peak of opportunity has already been reached and there is no further chance of improving health? What do doctors say about it?
- Yes, the doctors said that he would not see, hear, and in general would remain paralyzed for the rest of his life. When I picked him up from the rehabilitation center, the doctors and nurses thought that I did not understand the situation and refused to believe what was happening. They said that Magomed simply would not survive at home, and they would never have thought that we would have what we have now.
We have gone through so much and there is so much ahead, but the doctors are adamant in their predictions. This is the first time I am talking about this press ... And before, I really refused to believe that Magomed would not be able to fully recover. The doctor explained to me that my husband is missing half of his brain, he was removed after a stroke. Said: “How do you want his right side of his body to work if the part of the brain responsible for this is missing?” But I still believe. He tries to speak, sees well. It seems so to me. My magician is very smart, sometimes he says words that even I don’t know (smiles).
"DO I HAVE ANOTHER CHOICE?"
- Magomed was very lucky with his wife. After what happened, you actually became the head of the family - you manage finances, make decisions, are responsible for children and at the same time manage to cope with everything. Difficult?
– Do I have another choice? I think not. If I give up, everything will go wrong. I have a husband and three children, I am indebted to my healthy Mage, I am obliged to raise our daughters. Even in the next world, if we meet there, he will ask me: “How could you?” Children for my Magi were everything, he raved about them. What would happen to him if I gave up? He was saved by ... care (from English - care), you see, I already forget the Russian words.
Everyone is wondering if he has a psychologist? He doesn’t have it, my husband doesn’t need it - Maga doesn’t have any complexes, there wasn’t even a moment when he would say “why do I live at all”. No, because no one makes it clear to him that he is sick. His daughters are always there, his wife is near him. I try to always be cheerful in front of him, do not cry, hug, kiss him. He does not feel that something is wrong.
We women are generally very strong people. (smiles). Many write that Magomed himself probably raised me like that, but this is not entirely true. I was raised by such parents. There were four of us, and my father always loved me. A lot of love has been invested in me, I am a positive person. Now I'm talking to you and I can rejoice, but in a few minutes I can get upset and drink a sedative. But if we do not cheer ourselves up internally, then how else can we live? I also lost my brother, and there were many different thoughts in my head, but ... If I do this, then no one will thank me. You can't give up. Mage won't forgive me.
"WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO LIVE IN DAGESTAN"
How do you like life in the States? Better than in Dagestan?
- Honestly, I love Dagestan, I love our people and miss them very much. But... we won't be able to live in Dagestan. In the States, everything is for the people, here is the best medicine, and if not for this, I don’t know what would have happened to us. The only bad thing is that there are no relatives nearby. But now we need only medicine.
- It must have been hard for you to put your husband on his feet alone, and even in a foreign country?
– Of course, it was hard. But from the first days, a friend of Magomed helped us Aminulla Suleymanov, Andrei Mikhailovich Ryabinsky(Russian businessman, vice-president of the Federation professional boxing Russia. - Note. "MI") paid us the rehabilitation center for 8 months, each - $ 57,000. Otherwise, we would not have been able to start treatment, and who knows what would happen now. I am very grateful to these people that they were next to us at the most difficult moment.
– Does Magomed himself miss Dagestan?
- Well, there is no such thing that he sits and says "I miss Dagestan." When I ask him if he is bored, Magomed replies that the main thing is that the children and wife are there. We all yearn for Dagestan, but not everything happens in life the way we want. The main thing is that we are together.
- Does the state of health allow Magomed to make long flights?
We are not risking yet. Even a healthy person who flies 10 hours can be exposed to certain risks.
- You have been living in the USA for quite a long time, your daughters spent most of their lives in the States ... Do they grow up and are brought up in an American way?
- In no case. I am a smiling mother, but very strict. Even my daughters' friends are afraid of me. I don't let them relax. I teach and clean, and cook, and they wash with me. I teach them to live the way my mother taught me. The girl is getting married, and they will only marry Dagestanis. They will have to feed their husbands deliciously, take care of them the way their mother takes care of their dad.
“What if one of your daughters wants to marry a boxer?” How will you react to this?
We will make him quit boxing (laughs). Of course, we will take an interest in the opinion of our daughters, but in general my father chose my husband. Well, he will be a boxer, so what? The main thing is that the guy was good. And I will teach my daughter how to take care of a boxer. Learned from bitter experience...
"I ALWAYS FEEL WE WERE MADE FOR EACH OTHER"
- Imagine that we go back 14 years ago - on the day of your wedding with Magomed. Knowing what difficulties you will have to go through, would you marry Magomed?
“I always thought we were made for each other. We quarreled and fought, but we always loved each other. We lived together for 9 years before this incident, we lived well, and now we live. Why not? At least for the sake of these nine years of life and wonderful daughters. Mohammed is my man. If I didn’t want and didn’t love him, then I would have left after what happened. I would also be able to live peacefully and securely in Dagestan with my parents and go about my business. In this world, no one owes anyone, and there are many abandoned children and parents in Dagestan. I’m already silent about my wife or husband ... It’s just that it doesn’t fit in my head, how can I leave a loved one? Maybe I'm not brought up that way. I am with my Maga not because of money or anything else, but because this is my husband, the father of my three children, whom I loved and still love.
Nurmagomed ASTARKHANOV
Number of impressions: 135050"Money will not be returned to me ex-husband". The Abdusalamov family received $22 million in compensation in a US court
The family of Russian boxer Magomed Abdusalamov won a lawsuit in the United States and will receive very large monetary compensation. Correspondent of "Match TV" Vadim Tikhomirov spoke with Bakanay Abdusalamova to find out what three years of struggle for justice and the health of her husband were like for her.
On November 2, 2013, in New York, Russian Magomed Abdusalamov lost a boxing match for the first time in his career: he lost to Cuban Mike Perez by unanimous decision. After the fight, Abdusalamov felt unwell, began to lose consciousness and was taken to the hospital by taxi. Doctors determined a cerebral hemorrhage and put the boxer into a state of artificial coma. In December, Abdusalamov was brought out of a coma - and two exhausting processes were launched for his family. The first is rehabilitation, due to the fact that after a coma, the boxer could not move and talk. The second is judicial, since, according to relatives of Magomed, he did not receive timely medical care.
On the night of September 9, 2017, ESPN wrote that the court ordered the state of New York to pay $ 22 million to the boxer's family as compensation for the injuries sustained by Magomed Abdusalamov. Among other things, it was indicated that this is the largest compensation in US history for bodily injuries.
“All this is really true, but the trial is not over yet, we are continuing the case, there will be more trials,” Bakanai Abdusalamova, Magomed’s wife, said in an interview with Match TV a few hours after the news appeared.
- But the state of New York has to pay your family 22 million dollars, and this is already certain?
- For you, money was a matter of principle, a desire to prove that someone is guilty of what happened to your husband?
It's hard for me to say now. You see, when the trial began, I thought that Mago would come to his senses by the last court hearings. I thought his condition was for six months, maybe for a year. But now, when you understand that Mago has not yet recovered and that you need a lot of money for this, and you see that you are alone, and everything you need for your family needs to be paid somehow, you understand that you need money too.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BUSlv8Zl5FH/- I understand perfectly well that you did not win this money in the lottery, but still this is a huge fortune that suddenly became yours - how will you manage it?
- We have to pay for the work of lawyers, we have debts - about two million dollars. Plus, out of the amount that we will be paid, ten million will look like an investment that will provide us with a monthly income, which should be enough to support the family and rehabilitate Magomed. I hope this money will help create Better conditions for recovery, we will be able to see where and what rehabilitation centers are, it will be easier for us to move around.
As I said, we received the money, but whatever it is, I can’t just take it and return the Mago that was before.
What is a two million dollar debt?
- These are the expenses that we incurred in the course of rehabilitation. All procedures here are very expensive. Just to give an example, a 15-minute acupuncture session costs $150. We need several such sessions a week, and we have been doing them for three years. A special bed for people who cannot move independently costs about eight thousand dollars. We need to pay so that we can travel to train.
- Train?
- That's what I call physiotherapy, I'm already used to this word when I talk about Magomed. Usually we have hour-long workouts and in addition to them we do either in the pool or come to us and do acupuncture. At home there is a special room where we can go for procedures.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BOs-OJFDmet/- All boxers have insurance before the fight.
- Yes, insurance coverage is ten thousand dollars ... This is enough for a few minutes of resuscitation in a clinic in the USA. Magomed spent two months in a coma. I exaggerate, of course, but when a person receives such damage, insurance does not cover even a small part. For example, Andrei Ryabinsky (Russian businessman, head of the World of Boxing company - Match TV) helped us pay for treatment in a rehabilitation center. Treatment there costs several tens of thousands of dollars a month. But we had many procedures later, in fact, it was a treatment on credit - the hospital agreed, although I understood that it would be difficult for me to repay this debt. I have nothing.
During rehabilitation, Magomed was hospitalized several times. Once everything was very serious, he had a severe infection, we just did not advertise it. We started developing osteomyelitis (a purulent-necrotic process in the bone - "Match TV"), sepsis, and Magomed's condition was very serious. At some point it seemed to me that the doctors, in principle, decided that he could not cope and thought that it should be so. I started yelling for them to do something. Magomed spent several weeks in the hospital. Now we live on, and we will not say that everything is gorgeous, but normal.
– Where do you live?
- In Greenwich in New York, in the house that family friend Aminulla Suleimanov provided us, he, together with Andrei Ryabinsky, helped us the most, and I am very grateful to them for this, because it was the help without which everything would be now differently. But obviously, we can't live all our lives in someone else's house, we would like to buy our own.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BPEqeKUj67k/- Have you ever met Mike Perez (Magomed Abdusalamov's rival)?
- Not. What for?
Would it be important to you that he personally apologize to you?
– He boxed in the ring just like my husband. Before that, Magomed also had all the victories by knockouts, that is, he also beat people hard. What happened to him is not the fault of his opponent.
- Who do you blame?
- I can't rate. We believe that Magomed did not receive timely medical assistance - that's all I can say.
- Magomed understands that you won the trial?
It's hard for me to answer you. Of course, I tell him this, but I think that he does not fully understand. He is now a different person, he cannot sit and argue what we will do when we won the court. I can. I think about what conditions it will create for him so that he can live and train, what conditions I can create for the life of our children with Magomed.
I would like to equip a training room at home, buy all the necessary rehabilitation devices there, so that we can undergo procedures outside the rehabilitation center, so that we can work out before bed. I'd like to buy him a special bed, I've got a few more things in mind for him, and hopefully it works out now.
– Unfortunately, there are stories when a person and doctors reach the maximum in terms of rehabilitation, and after that it is already difficult to improve something.
- In general, doctors first told us that he would not survive, then that he would not be able to think, then that he would not be able to speak. Now they say they see a miracle, because initially they looked at the pictures of his brain and said the word "plant", and now they look and say "fantastic".
The left side of the body works for him, he opens his eyes, he tries to speak. While doctors do not promise anything, we just hope that there will be some more results.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BW686_xlcbV/- Have you thought about trying to be treated somewhere other than the USA: in Israel, Switzerland, Germany?
- Well, where we do not. Of course, they say that there are other good clinics, but America has very good medicine. Perhaps in another country he would not have survived with such injuries. And I’m not ready to move with the children and Magomed to another place, especially when I don’t know how he will endure the flight.
- Do you get a lot of advice on how to be treated?
“Instagram constantly says: “Try this…do it like this…these medicines help.” I don’t try any of this, because without the doctor’s permission I can’t give anything, and now he has a lot of drugs that you need to know how to combine with each other, and some new drugs may simply turn out to be incompatible. Someone says that it is necessary to use the traditional Islamic method - Hijama (bloodletting treatment - "Match TV"), I respect traditions, but imagine if doctors in the USA see that I myself do some then incisions. I think I myself can then be sent to court.
- If you happen to see a boxing match today, how do you react?
- I can’t sit down on purpose and turn on boxing myself, but if I see it somewhere, I won’t turn away, I understand that my husband lived this, and you could get injured in ordinary life. So, when you wrote to me, on WhatsApp, you thought that this was not my number, because there is an adult man in my profile picture.
Yes, and very serious.
“It's just a picture of my brother, he died in a car accident two years ago. This is a huge grief, but this does not mean that we should now not drive. It's the same with boxing.
Abdusalamov Magomed Magomedgadzhievich
Magomed Abdusalamov - Russian athlete heavyweight boxer weight class from September 2008 to November 2013. After a fight with Cuban Mike Perez, he was injured with a hematoma in the brain, underwent surgery. On November 6, Magomed Abdusalamov officially ended his professional career.
Biography
In 1998 he graduated from school number 9 in Makhachkala.
From 1999 to 2004 he worked Thai boxing under the leadership of Zaynalbek Zaynalbekov.
In 2004 he graduated from the Makhachkala branch of the Moscow Road Institute.
Since 2008, M. Abdusalamov has been living in the USA, in the city of Hallandale, Florida.
Boxing career
In 2004, he began boxing under the guidance of coach Evgeny Kotov.
In 2005 and 2006, Magomed Abdusalamov became the Russian heavyweight champion among amateurs.
In 2008, M. Abdusalamov took part in the qualifying competitions for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, but could not leave the qualification.
In 2008, Magomed Abdusalamov first appeared in the professional ring in the heavy weight category. He fought his first fight as a professional on September 6, 2008, defeating Epifania Pipi from Ghana by knockout in the first round.
From September 2008 to April 2013, he spent eighteen fights and won everything by knockout. The first 8 fights were won by knockout in the first round. The next 10 fights were also won by knockout in the early rounds.
On July 6, 2012, he won the WBC USA (USNBC) Silver title. March 8, 2013 defended this title.
As of November 1, 2013, Magomed Abdusalamov ranked fourth in the World Boxing Council (WBC) ranking.
On November 2, 2013, M. Abdusalamov lost on points to Cuban Mike Perez in a fight for the US heavyweight title according to the World Boxing Council (WBC). The fight took place in New York at the Madison Square Garden complex. This defeat was the first and only in his career.
After the fight, the Russian boxer was diagnosed with a fracture of the left hand and nose, a cut over the left eye and a jaw injury. Also, during the examination, the athlete was found to have a blood clot in the brain. The athlete was put into an artificial coma and operated on.
On November 6, Natan Levkovich, vice president of the Sampson Boxing promotion company, announced that Magomed Abdusalamov had completed his professional career and would no longer enter the ring.
On December 7, 2013, Magomed Abdusalamov came out of a coma, on December 10, doctors transferred the boxer from the intensive care unit to a regular ward.
On December 21, 2013, a rally was held at which for the treatment of Magomed Abdusalamov managed to raise about 600 thousand rubles . A part of the necessary funds and two months of rehabilitation were paid for by a businessman, vice-president of the Russian Professional Boxing Federation Andrey Ryabinsky.
In February 2014, the wife of Magomed Abdusalamov filed a $100 million lawsuit against the authorities of the US state of New York and the leadership of the New York State Athletic Commission. The family of the 32-year-old boxer brought charges of negligence and unprofessionalism of medical workers.
According to the Abdusalamov family, it was the sluggishness of the fight organizers and doctors that led to irreversible brain damage to the athlete, who ended up in the hospital as a result of an injury received in the ring. The lawsuit also states that if the fight had been stopped in time, the injury could have been avoided.
Family status
Magomed Abdusalamov is married to Bakanai Abdusalamov. There are three children in their family.
Sources:
- Magomed Abdusalamov is the hope of Russian boxing. Curriculum vitae (video). - Website of the newspaper "Soviet Sport", November 4, 2013
- Russian boxer Magomed Abdusalamov remains in a state of artificial coma for the eighth day. - ITAR-TASS, November 11, 2013
- Abdusalamov - McCline - on the undercard Klitschko - Charr. Press portrait of Abdusalamov. - Championship.com, 08/13/2012
- Biography of boxer Magomed Abdusalamov. - RIA Novosti, November 4, 2013
- Russian professional boxer Magomed Abdusalamov suffered his first defeat. - ITAR-TASS, November 3, 2013
- "Vesti" online newspaper" - "Boxing. The Abdusalamov family filed a lawsuit for 100 million", 23.02.2014