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
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