.....“I was told by my doctors in Puerto Rico that his injuries are very difficult to recover from for a boxer and serious enough that he may never return to the sport again,” said Miranda. “I hope that he takes the necessary time to recover. I feel somewhat responsible for the damage that was caused during the fight. As a fellow human being it was difficult for me to punish him with him being in the shape he was in. I hope one day that he is able to fight again.”
After leaving Germany, Miranda returned to Puerto Rico. “I am glad to be home,” expressed Miranda. “I have been enjoying the past few days with friends, swimming at the beach and enjoying the beautiful scenery of Puerto Rico. But through it all, I can’t help thinking about that poor guy, ‘cause he did not want to continue and now supposedly he is in the hospital in pain needing to have his jaw wired shut for four weeks after they made him keep fighting.” Miranda continued, “I heard a report that he has two titanium plates in his jaw and that he had to have a three hour emergency surgery in Intensive Care.”
When asked how he felt about the corner of Abraham making him continue, Miranda stated, “I was surprised. I saw the condition that he was in losing a lot of blood and he couldn’t even close his mouth and they wanted him to keep going after the doctor and the ref said it was over. I was confused and couldn’t believe it.” Miranda paused and said, “I asked my trainer, Jose Bonilla what would he have done if that was me and he assured me that if I was taking that kind of punishment that he would stop the fight, without a doubt. One fight is not as important as my future and my health.” ...
“I respect him as a warrior. He really showed his guts!” said Miranda on the determination of Abraham. “I don’t know if he can remember this or not but I held his hand up at the end of the fight out of respect for him finishing the fight. I give him a lot of credit for continuing after I know he did not want to.”
....“I also heard that he made statements or someone from his camp said that Abraham doesn’t respect me, that I am a dirty fighter and they made comments about the supposed low blows. But the so-called low blows didn’t break his jaw and cause that damage to his face, my punches did. In fact my trainer told me to stop going to the body because he was afraid that they were going to try to disqualify me so that I didn’t win the belt,” said the disappointed Colombian.....
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