Patrick Day — chronicle of a boxing death foretold
4 min readOct 18, 2019
Patrick Day’s death from brain trauma sustained in his super welterweight fight against Charles Conwell in Chicago on Saturday 12 October once again shines a harsh light on boxing in a year in which four ring fatalities constitutes a grim and impossible to wish away toll.
Though, inevitably, a chorus of voices will now be calling for the sport to be banned, such talk will…