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Nick Blackwell’s brother Dan also retires
- Updated: April 28, 2016
6:47 AM ET
Nick Blackwell’s younger brother Dan has retired from boxing after fearing for his sibling’s life.
The 23-year-old, a respected and resilient journeyman who was stopped only once in 61 fights, watched Nick collapse at the end of last month’s defeat by Chris Eubank Jr and followed him to hospital where he worried his brother would die.
Former British middleweight champion Nick, 25, was found to have suffered a bleed on the skull and was placed into an induced coma from which he has since awoken and made encouraging progress.
Before learning he would recover, however, Dan took the decision to stop fighting in the hope of avoiding his family ever experiencing the same fears over him.
“I thought my brother was dead: just that thought,” Blackwell, a full-time bricklayer, told Press Association Sport. “It wasn’t me worried about myself, it was me thinking ‘God, if I was …
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