The boxing way forward for Guillermo Rigondeaux was thrown into jeopardy after he suffered extreme accidents to each eyes throughout a cooking accident at dwelling in Miami.
The 41-year-old boxer was reportedly left with solely 20 % of his imaginative and prescient after a stress cooker exploded in his face. The accidents left him hospitalized till Friday afternoon, Rigondeaux’s supervisor Alex Boronte tells El Nuevo Herald. Boronte provides that the Cuban exile will bear additional assessments to find out how everlasting the accidents are.
Preliminary hopes are that solely the retina is affected, and that the tissue would regenerate by itself and result in a full restoration of Rigondeaux’s imaginative and prescient. That prognosis might change if the optic nerve is impacted, and Rigondeaux might require surgical procedure.
ESPN reviews that Rigondeaux can see shadows and daylight, and that the method of regenerating cornea tissue can take two weeks.
“The following week to 10 days is de facto going to outline his combating profession and his future as a result of that’s when the cornea must regenerate itself and may see or not,” Boronte mentioned in a narrative by Mike Coppinger.
“However gathering from the final 24 hours, he’s doing actually good.”
Rigondeaux, a 2000 and 2004 Olympic gold medalist and former unified junior featherweight titleholder, is coming off a detailed unanimous choice loss to Filipino journeyman Vincent Astrolabio on Feb. 26 in Dubai. Previous to that, Rigondeaux misplaced a break up choice to John Riel Casimero in August in a vie for the WBO bantamweight title.
The Ring needs the previous champion all the perfect in his restoration.
