Boxing Boxer dies through head injuries
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Denny, 24, died from injuries suffered from a massive blow to the head which had left him in a coma.
"The inevitable has happened," Mrs. Clarine Denny, his 24 year-old widow said. His anguished family had refused to disconnect the life support systems which had kept him alive.
He underwent emergency brain surgery after being knocked out in the 10th round of a June 20 fight with Canadian Lightweight Champion Gaetain Hart and had remained in a coma since the bout - a preliminary to the Roberto Duran-Sugar Ray Leonard fight.
Doctors had said Denny was clinically dead with no hope of survival, and told the grieving family last week that death would come within a matter of days, even with life-sustaining equipment.
