Irish super-featherweight boxer John Cooney has died on the presen of 28 then struggling a mind shock all through his Celtic identify defence struggle towards Welsh opponent Nathan Howells utmost generation, his promoter introduced on Saturday.
“It is with complete devastation that we have to announce that after a week of battling for his life, John Cooney has sadly passed away,” Mark Dunlop of MHD Promotions stated on social media.
The 28-year-old have been in sanatorium in Belfast then surgical operation.
In an previous observation, Cooney’s promoter Mark Dunlop had stated: ‘Following John Cooney’s epic identify struggle on the Ulster Corridor on Saturday night Josh was once assessed through the onsite clinical group of the British Boxing Board of Keep watch over and hastily taken to Belfast’s Royal Victoria Medical institution for additional remedy.
‘On arrival on the RVH it was once came upon that John had an intercranial haemorrhage and underwent rapid surgical operation to alleviate the force on his mind.
He had left the hoop on a stretcher then utmost Saturday’s struggle on the town’s Ulster Corridor was once forbidden within the 9th spherical.
“Such a tragedy to lose this fine young boxer,” stated former featherweight international champion Barry McGuigan.
