It was so unexpected, you don't know how to react, which was good with the boxing club, because it is like our support group. There's nothing we can do about it, so we just get back to work. Paxinos visits Levi at St. Patrick Hospital to give his teammate, who is in critical condition, all the support he can. It's good for him to hear, so he knows we are there for him. On Monday, the boxing team held their first official practice since Levi collapsed.
Laughter breaks the rhythm of the punching bag as two boxers make fun of one another.
There aren' t as many fighters at practice,but no one has officially quit the team. Rhynard said they are missing only a few regulars and they are probably just taking more time off to think about what happened. When I step in the ring I'm going to think about him, but I think about him all the time. It motivates me. Halcomb said that boxing is a dangerous sport and boxers need to know it.