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Thursday, April 3, 2025

Boxer Alexander remains in critical condition at Hospital

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Sports Desk
1524 days ago
20210130
Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Shamfa Cujoe and boxer Michael Alexander in April 2020.

Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Shamfa Cujoe and boxer Michael Alexander in April 2020.

Kerron Savory

The lat­est from the close rel­a­tives of T&T box­er Michael Alexan­der out of the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal is that he's still list­ed in very crit­i­cal con­di­tion on Fri­day, fol­low­ing a ve­hic­u­lar ac­ci­dent on Wednes­day evening in Diego Mar­tin.

The 28-year-old Alexan­der was rid­ing his mo­tor­cy­cle when it col­lid­ed with a van at the cor­ner of Ci­ca­da Dri­ve, Riv­er Es­tate and North Coast Road.

Fol­low­ing the in­ci­dent, Alexan­der who won bronze at the 2014 Com­mon­wealth Games in Glas­gow, Scot­land was tak­en to the St James Med­ical Com­plex, West­ern Main Road, St James be­fore he was lat­er trans­ferred to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

Alexan­der al­so won bronze at the Pan Am Cham­pi­onships in 2013 in the men's light wel­ter­weight (64kg); the 2014 Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Games, and at the 2019 Pan Amer­i­can Games, suf­fered a punc­tured lung, two bro­ken ribs and a bro­ken left hand.

In ad­di­tion, he al­so has a sil­ver medal from the 2018 CAC Games and was a hope­ful for the T&T Olympic Games team lat­er this year.

Ce­cil Forde, pres­i­dent of the T&T Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (TT­BA) said yes­ter­day that the en­tire box­ing fra­ter­ni­ty is pray­ing for Alexan­der and that he has a speedy re­cov­ery.

Forde told Guardian Me­dia Sports on Fri­day that: “I know it will be tough for him and his fam­i­ly, but we all have to wish for the best. I know that the doc­tors will be do­ing all they can for him at this crit­i­cal stage. He is still in the In­ten­sive Care Unit (ICU)."

Reynold Cox, a vice pres­i­dent of the TT­BA and Alexan­der's coach for more than a decade said on Fri­day: "He's still in a very se­ri­ous con­di­tion but he's sta­ble."

On Thurs­day, Bri­an Lewis, pres­i­dent of the T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) stat­ed that Alexan­der is cur­rent­ly in the tough­est fight of his life.

He said, "Alexan­der is one of our Olympic schol­ar­ship ath­letes and has done the coun­try proud at nu­mer­ous tour­na­ments and I know he will put up a strong bat­tle all the way. There’s no deny­ing the fact that he is a great box­er and he has shown him­self to be fear­less and coura­geous in the ring, and I ex­pect him to be that way as he fights for sur­vival as well.

"The most im­por­tant thing right now is for us to wish him well through prayer and hope that with the help of the doc­tors he will be able to make a full re­cov­ery," he end­ed.


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