Karlo Maquinto, 21, Dies After Weeklong Comatose StateKarlo Maquinto's fight did not end last Saturday after eight grueling rounds. He fought and fought for seven straight days after suffering fatal injury in the ring in that bout. He fought even if prognosis of recovery was poor right from the start. He fought even if he was pronounced clinically dead by his doctors yesterday. He fought even when his heart stopped this morning in a hospital in Manila. Karlo never stopped fighting, he never gave up, not until the very end.
Karlo was knocked down twice in the first round of his boxing match last Saturday in Calooan City. The type of knockdown that would have kept a regular fighter down for the count. But not Karlo. He got up, not once but twice and came back fighting. He jabbed, boxed and hooked not for another round or two. He fought for seven more rounds. Eight rounds of exhausting, taxing and fatal battle of boxing. The Ilonggo warrior never backed down, never gave up, never surrendered. He finished the fight on his feet and even with the two knockdowns, he was able to managed to pull out a draw against his opponent and kept his winning record intact.
