Injury to Keep Love out of Ring
Posted: December 16, 2007


A vehicle crash last week sent Kronk Gym's J'Leon Love to the hospital and a neck injury will keep him from the ring for at least six weeks.

Love, 20, was within a few miles of home returning from the Senior Open championships north of Traverse City when the car he was riding in collided with another vehicle. The super-middleweight, who was asleep in the rear seat and not wearing a safety belt, was thrown over the front seats and into the windshield causing a deep head cut and a fractured C3 vertebrae in his neck, the boxer told Sportssummary. Love was taken to Detroit Receiving Hospital where he was kept overnight.

Love was one of several Kronk boxers that came home from the Senior Open, sometimes referred to as the U.S. States, with a championship title. It was a title the fighter won last year, as well. In addition, the Kronk Gym won the team trophy this year and their trainer, Coach Javan "Sugar" Hill, received Coach of the Year honors from the LBC

Love is wearing a neck brace and, for the next month or so, will have to refrain from most physical activity including a favorite out-of-ring activity - basketball.

The upbeat Love seemed to be taking everything in stride, grateful that the injury was not even-more serious proving that even out of the ring, this young man has a champion attitude.

(c) 2007 Sportssummary.com