Trigg’s Opponent Danny Babcock Fought With Serious Infection
Danny Babcock
Last Saturday, in the headlining bout of XFC’s “Rumble in Racetown” in Daytona, Florida, veteran Frank Trigg topped local Danny Babcock by unanimous decision. We now learn, from Florida Today, that Babcock was suffering from a potentially deadly MRSA infection that wasn’t detected until after the fight.
From the report:
But after many inside kicks from Trigg and three five-minute rounds of cage fighting, Babcock’s knee swelled to the point that the same physician team that performed prefight inspections advised him to go the emergency room. After hospital staff took a sample for culture and gave him intravenous antibiotics, Babcock was released from the ER the same night without a conclusion. As the knee continued to swell, Babcock’s trainer, Marco Slayne, took him to see his personal doctor in Fort Pierce, Fla., the next day.
“She was appropriately horrified (at the sight of his knee) and sent him to the emergency room,” Slayne said.
Babcock, 26, was diagnosed with MRSA and is recovering at a hospital in Fort Pierce with intravenous fluids and antibiotics.
“In all honesty, if I thought it was MRSA, I never would have let him fight. It’s not fair to the other fighter.”
When asked from his hospital room what he was thinking on fight night, Babcock said: “Just to go out there and have a good fight. I wanted to make sure I didn’t go out there and get slaughtered because I knew how bad I was. I was so sick, I just went out there and did what I had to do.”
Slayne said they will contact everyone who came in contact with Babcock, including Trigg.
“If one more of my members comes up with it, I would close my gym for a month, just to try to stop it in its tracks,” Slayne said.
“It’s a byproduct of what we do,” he said the night of the fight.
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WHAT THE FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
MRSA is vicious… not a good thing. It doesn’t say much for Trigg considering he was less than impressive against this guy who was THIS sick… and it’s rather indicting for the doctors at the event.
To fight with MRSA is just insane seriously, then for Trigg to not be able to end him is crazy all in it’s self… And he wants to make a run at WW and attempting to be in the top 5 and he couldn’t finish the fight against a gent that was terribly sick, I dont see it happening imo
This fight was at 185 if I remember correctly.
They need definitely need to disinfect the whole gym wherever he trains though, that stuff is hard to fight off if you get it, they need to do everything they can to keep people from getting it.
Ya it was 185 but Trigg himself plans on moving down in weight and being in the top 5 of the WW division, sorry I didnt specify what I meant, I had other shh going on yada yada
and yes the need to do the entire place every corner everything
I knew he was planning on moving down, I guess the point I was trying to make was that, because this fight was at 185, it’s not necessarily an indication of how he will do at 170… though it does give some reason to believe he’s not going to be a real contender again.
What is MRSA? It sounds pretty nasty.
Staph times 5 kinda, its a extreme case that is a biotch to treat, thats pretty much all I know of it
MRSA is staph, it is just immune to all common antibiotics. A side effect of a medicine-hungry society. We created it by overmedicating.
Babcock said he was “SO SICK”, but yet the doctors said “If I had known” Obviously he wasn’t sick enough to make it obvious. In this day and age this **** should not be happening. A fight that was destined to be intense should have made the decision to not fight, much easier. It’s kinda like what they said about GSP and Serra, Serra beat him and the reason Serra beat him was because of GSP taking the fight for granted, he said “IF it was Matt Hughes I wouldn’t have taken the fight” but he ended up losing anyway and had to suffer the consequences of his decision. Same here. You’re too sick, don’t fight. And he admited he was “So SIck”