This abode was originally appear Oct 22, 2014. It is allotment of the alternation “Death in the Ring.”
With two circuit in the books, Dennis Munson Jr. angled on the stool in the bend of the ring, the hoots and hollers of a Friday activity night alveolate through the alveolate ballroom.
The 24-year-old, agile and chiseled, had addled adamantine in the aboriginal round, but achromatic fast in the second. Now aggregate depended on the third and final round. Munson sagged and affected as a drillmaster barked instructions, propping him up.
It was Munson’s aboriginal kickboxing match.
Munson and his accompanying brother had watched fights like these aback they were kids growing up on Milwaukee’s abrasive northwest side. The two were inseparable. They formed out together, appropriation weights on a bank their sister’s admirer bought them aback they were 10. They alike had jobs at the aforementioned nursing home, alive in maintenance.
They got an accommodation together, but best abstracted gyms and hardly altered paths — kickboxing for Dennis, alloyed aggressive arts for Derrick. Now, Derrick sat in the admirers at the Eagles Club, a 1920s-era antique that had hosted fights for generations. He was the abandoned ancestors affiliate to accomplish it to Dennis’ debut.
Dennis had spent a year training at Roufusport MMA Academy, toiling in the gym’s entry-level classes, watching and acquirements from the added fighters until he fabricated it assimilate the activity team. For his aboriginal match, he artificial to cut weight — about eight pounds — to accomplish the 135-pound bantamweight division, and had to advertise tickets aloof to accomplish it on the activity card.
A few hundred assemblage were on hand, but abounding added seats were empty. Some bodies formed abreast the bar. A arena babe in hot pants and high-heeled boots strutted past, the agenda captivated aloft her arch announcement the third annular as lights pulsed and music blared.
The adjudicator summoned the fighters. Munson rose, wobbled and staggered forward.
He had two added account to fight.
And aloof bristles hours to live.
Before Munson climbed into the arena on March 28, he stepped into the fast-growing apple of activity sports and ultimate fighting.
With their ceaseless activity and amazing knockouts, the sports accept confused from the caliginosity of underground, bare-knuckle brawls in the 1990s and into the boilerplate of sold-out arenas and pay-per-view cable audiences in the millions.
Like hundreds of ambitious fighters, Munson started at Roufusport, a alive gym on Milwaukee’s west side. It is endemic by Jeffrey “Duke” Roufus, who forth with his brother, Rick, was a apple best kickboxer two decades ago. The brothers grew up in Milwaukee. Their ancestor started training them in aggressive arts from the time they were in kindergarten.
Duke Roufus and his business partner, Scott Joffe, do added than run a gym. They are the area’s primary activity promoter, putting on several contest a year. Roufus is acclaimed and affiliated in the apple of alloyed aggressive arts and has developed abysmal ties with a scattering of admiral — referees, doctors, announcers and others — who assignment the fights for him.
Initially, Roufus was a agnostic of alloyed aggressive arts or “ultimate fighting” — an amalgamation of disciplines, borrowing from abounding activity sports: wrestling, boxing, kickboxing, jiujitsu and more. In media reports, Roufus alleged it “barbarism.”
Today the activity has added compatible rules and has distanced itself from the aboriginal “no-holds-barred” days, admitting it remains, at its core, agitated and bloody.
Roufus added MMA training to his gym about a decade ago, and has become a top trainer of such fighters.
He clean-cut accepted declining champion Anthony Pettis, who rose from Milwaukee streets to celebrity status, landing on a Wheaties box and the absoluteness appearance “The Ultimate Fighter,” put on by Ultimate Angry Championship, the world’s top alloyed aggressive arts promoter.
Some appear to Roufus’ gym aloof for the exercise. MMA workouts are awfully difficult. But abounding accept aspirations of accepting into the arena to fight, afterward in Pettis’ footsteps.
As activity sports accept become added popular, assurance apropos accept increased.
No bureau advance deaths in the sports. A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel analysis found 12 deaths of kickboxers and MMA fighters since 2007 worldwide.
Serious injuries are far added common. Able alloyed aggressive arts fighters ache a alarming academician abrasion in about one-third of bouts, beyond the ante in football, hockey and boxing, according to a study by the University of Toronto from beforehand this year.
Combat sports face an asperous check of adjustment beyond the country. Some states carefully adapt them, while others aces and accept which ones they sanction.
In Wisconsin, alloyed aggressive arts abutting battle as sports regulated by the accompaniment in 2010, but the agnate activity of kickboxing was amid those larboard out of the accompaniment law. UFC promoters crave such acceptance in states area its fighters perform, and the move was advised to allurement the contest here.
The accompaniment regulates alloyed aggressive arts, but not the agnate activity of kickboxing, abrogation promoters to baby-sit their own fights
In some states, abecedarian kickboxers allegation abrasion careful headgear. Wisconsin has no such requirement.
Experts say the referee, ringside doctor and cornerman should accept intervened to appraise Munson or stop the fight.
Munson cut about 8 pounds to activity as a 135-pound bantamweight. Kickboxers advised in the day of the bout, abrogation little time to furnish what was absent in the weight cut. The accompaniment doesn’t acquiesce same-day weigh-in for alloyed aggressive arts.
Roufusport gave badge two versions of the activity video. In the high-definition version, 32 abnormal are missing – appropriate afore Munson collapses. Badge acclimated that video in their report. An unedited additional adaptation shows cornerman slapping Munson, captivation him by the face and abutting and the doctor not advantageous attention.
The ringside doctor initially told an ambulance aggregation not to administrate oxygen. A manually-operated elevator was on a altered floor, dabbling carriage for up to 5 minutes.
The ambulance aggregation coiled off a better-trained Milwaukee Blaze Department unit. Munson was taken to adjacent Sinai hospital, rather than the region’s Akin One agony center, Froedtert Hospital.
Officials administering Munson’s activity all accept abysmal access to the promoters at Roufusport, creating a battle of interest. Experts said doctors and referees should not assignment fights area such links exist.
So on the night Munson stepped into the arena for the aboriginal time, there was no accompaniment abettor or inspectors and no additional ringside doctor. Munson and the added kickboxers had not accustomed abounding physicals by a doctor, which would accept been appropriate for an MMA bout.
They advised in on the morning of the bout, giving them alone hours to furnish weight absent to activity in a lighter class. It is a beneath big-ticket advantage for the apostle because admiral don’t allegation to be paid to be there the day before.
But the accompaniment angle that access as added dangerous. In MMA matches in Wisconsin, admiral crave weigh-ins to be done the day afore a fight. That allows added time for fluids to be replenished including about the brain, area they access aegis from blows.
Because the activity was unsanctioned, accompaniment regulators say they are blank to investigate what happened that night — alike admitting the admiral who formed the baleful activity are accountant by the accompaniment to assignment at alloyed aggressive arts events.
Munson’s afterlife was advised by the Milwaukee Badge Department and referred to the commune attorney’s office, which beneath to affair charges. In September, the Milwaukee County medical examiner’s appointment ruled Munson died as a aftereffect of arch trauma.
A Journal Sentinel analysis begin a avalanche of errors was fabricated by activity admiral — all of whom accept been carefully affiliated to Roufus for years. On the night Munson died, the admiral bootless to arbitrate at key moments as he apparent what a dozen absolute experts who advised a video of the activity say were accessible signs of distress. Several said the activity should accept been stopped.
Even afterwards Munson collapsed, affliction was delayed by a altercation over treatment, hang-ups departure the architecture and abashing about ambulance care. Skilled paramedics were coiled off and Munson was taken to a adjacent approved hospital, instead of Milwaukee’s Akin One agony center.
“From A to Z, I can’t acquaint you what was done appropriate here,” said Michael Schwartz, a adept ringside doctor from Connecticut. “People accept to admit you can’t booty shortcuts on this. Bodies die.”
Munson’s ancestors is disturbing to accomplish faculty of how a adolescent man in top appearance could be gone. His mother, Macie Bryant, blames the referee, the doctor and abnormally her son’s coaches for declining to act on accessible signs of distress.
“That wasn’t a allotment of meat with eyes, that was a animal being. That was my son,” she said. “I apperceive he active up for this, but as far as I’m concerned, aback they beatific him aback out there, they asleep him.”
Roufus did not acknowledgment a reporter’s messages. Joffe said those in allegation that night acted appropriately.
“I anticipate anybody did what they could at the time for Dennis….This is aloof a adverse situation,” Joffe said. “Everything we do is done with fighter assurance in mind. He looked like an beat fighter.”
Given their aboriginal affection for fights, Dennis and Derrick Munson appeared to be destined for band-aid sports.
But their mother would accept none of it.
Bryant, a distinct mom, kept the accouchement abutting to home and doted on the twins — the youngest of her five.
“It was aloof us,” said Brandy Gee, eight years earlier than the twins. “She would say, ‘Why do you allegation to go out there? You accept aggregate here.'”
And their mother was tough. One time, the twins were bent arena with matches. Their mother took the aperture off their bedroom.
The twins slept in the aforementioned allowance into adulthood. Alike afterwards they confused into their own place, they slept on couches in the active allowance for added than a year, admitting the accommodation had two bedrooms.
They were affable and soft-spoken, alike aback they squabbled.
“They’ll be accepting a acrimonious altercation but they wouldn’t accession their voice,” their sister said.
Sister talks about the night kickboxer Dennis Munson Jr. died
Amateur kickboxer Dennis Munson Jr. died afterwards his admission activity in 2014 at the Eagles Club in Milwaukee. Sister Brandy Gee talks about the night he died.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Dennis capital to comedy aerial academy football, but his mother wouldn’t assurance the form.
“I was aggravating to accumulate them out of trouble,” his mother said. “I apperceive things happen, and I didn’t appetite it to appear to them.”
Through a school-to-work program, Dennis got a job at Alexian Village, a nursing home on the northwest side. His brother followed.
Dennis afterwards enrolled in Kaplan University hoping to become a badge officer. And he and his brother started block the dream to be the affectionate of fighters they watched as boys.
At Roufusport, Dennis started out in aggressive arts exercise classes. He came in aboriginal — alive out for several hours — and backward backward to apprentice from others’ sparring.
He was unpolished but bent to improve. In a year, he progressed through four belts, from white to green, assuming he could booty a bite and not aback away. He was accessible for battle — apish angry with a assistant in the gym. He anon told the coaches he capital to accompany the activity aggregation and get a absolute bout.
Dennis Munson’s admission was recorded by a cameraman alive for Roufusport. Fighters generally get videos of their fights, both for training purposes and as mementos.
The video of Munson’s activity would end up as badge evidence.
Death in the Ring: Raw HD video from baleful kickboxing activity at the Eagles Club (missing footage)
Amateur kickboxer Dennis Munson Jr. died afterwards his admission activity in March 2014 at the Eagles Club in Milwaukee. This video of the activity was submitted to police, who begin no bent wrongdoing. The video is missing 32 seconds, aback Munson collapses.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Experts said the aboriginal assurance of agitation came at the alpha of the additional round: Munson’s anxiety beyond — commodity that would accept been accomplished out of him by coaches during training. His accoutrements dropped. He stumbled hardly and started demography undefended advance to the arch and body.
Typical of abecedarian kickboxers at this weight, the punches were not abnormally forceful. But the experts acclaimed Munson was not acerbic careful headgear.
Headgear is appropriate for abecedarian kickboxers in some added states and for abecedarian boxers in Wisconsin, but Roufus’ advance company, North American Angry Championship, did not crave it for this able event. Munson usually was appropriate to abrasion headgear while training.
In a fight, the referee, doctor and cornerman are best amenable for fighter safety. Admitting the March fights were unregulated, their roles and responsibilities were the aforementioned as in a adapted event, Joffe said.
The adjudicator was Al Wichgers, who has about four decades of experience, consistently alive at Roufus-sponsored events.
The adjudicator has the ascendancy to stop the bender if a fighter is not arresting himself or is accepting boundless punishment, according to experts. A “standing eight-count” can be alleged — best generally afterwards a altercation — to appraise a fighter’s condition.
Carlos Feliciano, the medical administrator at a testosterone centermost in Milwaukee, was the ringside doctor. Feliciano additionally works out at Roufusport. The doctoris declared to watch for injuries and can alarm time to appraise a fighter or ask the adjudicator to end the bout.
The cornerman was Scott Cushman, Roufusport’s longtime advance arresting instructor. Munson’s every-day coach, Joe Nicols, additionally was in the corner. Their job is to drillmaster abode while watching for signs of trouble. They apperceive their fighters’ tendencies, how they move and contrivance strikes. Experts said their blank is abnormally important for novices such as Munson.
As the additional annular progressed, signs that Munson was in agitation became added obvious, according to the experts who watched the video.
“He doesn’t attending like the aforementioned fighter,” said adept ringside doctor Sherry Wulkan, medical arch of the New Jersey Accompaniment Athletic Control Board. “I would be on more-than-high active at that point.”
Feliciano, the doctor, said he wasn’t worried. To him, Munson looked like a archetypal first-timer who started too adamantine and ran out of steam.
“I absolutely anticipation it was added of a fatigue thing,” he told the Journal Sentinel.
The video shows Feliciano took his eyes off the fighters at key moments, as he looked at his cellphone and talked to others ringside.
When the additional annular ended. Munson stumbled as he absolved to his corner. He sat on the stool but struggled to break up. Cushman afresh pushed up his arch and chest. Veterans of the activity say this affectionate of analysis happens, abnormally aback a drillmaster thinks his fighter is tired.
Between rounds, the adjudicator stood in a aloof corner. If he had concerns, he didn’t act on them. He beneath to be interviewed.
The video didn’t aces up what cornerman Cushman said to his fighter, but he later told badge he asked Munson if he was OK because he didn’t “look like himself in the ring.” Munson said he was aloof tired, according to Cushman.
Cushman’s anatomy accent adumbrated he was unhappy, “almost disgusted,” said referee John McCarthy of Los Angeles.
“He’s not compassionate what is activity on with his fighter,” McCarthy said. “He is aloof aghast in his performance.”
Cushman did not acknowledgment calls for comment.
As Cushman yelled at Munson, blame up his head, the arena doctor sat about 10 anxiety away, attractive at his cellphone. He put the buzz bottomward as Munson rose from his stool for the alpha of annular three.
Munson wobbled as he stoodand about cold to the mat. Cushman bent him.
He staggered out to face his opponent.
Michael Vang additionally was angry in his aboriginal bout, for an Appleton gym. Vang said it was boxy to be calm during the fight. He was nervous, blessed and afraid all at once.
“Things acquainted unreal,” he told the Journal Sentinel.
Vang said he knew the activity was his aback Munson’s easily began to drop, abrogation him accessible to shots.
“He chock-full arresting himself,” he said.
Death in the Ring: Experts alarm what went amiss in baleful kickboxing activity at Eagles Club
Amateur kickboxer Dennis Munson Jr. died afterwards his admission activity in March 2014 at the Eagles Club in Milwaukee. Absolute experts say there was a avalanche of errors by activity officials.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Vang accepted the adjudicator to stop the activity or at atomic accord Munson a continuing eight-count. Had Wichgers chock-full for an eight-count, it would accept meant a point answer by the three judges, all but ensuring achievement for Vang.
In kickboxing, there is no congenital way to accept — and a stigma adjoin it. Quitting is not an advantage for Roufusport fighters, Munson’s teammates said.
“There is a lot of burden to win,” said fighter Amanda Johnson. “They are actual anxious about their reputation. … We activity till we collapse, and that’s absolutely what he did.”
Munson’s adolescent newcomers on the aggregation watched the activity and worried. Some adept fighters were horrified. They heard bodies in the admirers beam as Munson accomplished for ropes that weren’t there.
“It was a actual askance sight,” said Justin Arredondo, who sparred with Munson frequently.
Others in the admirers shouted for the activity to be stopped.
Nothing happened.
The experts conceded that watching a video is altered than seeing a activity live. But they said the deepening signs of ache in Munson were bright by the third round.
“It was adverse accustomed the bulk of acquaintance there: doctor, corner, ref — the three bodies who accept the ability to stop the bout, who accept the authority, who accept the knowledge,” said referee Kevin MacDonald of Boston. “Nobody saw this, and somebody should have.”
Wichgers, the referee, would later tell police that Munson “appeared to be advantageous absorption to his cornerman aback he was talking to him and additionally dedicated himself aback he was in the ring.”
Wichgers additionally told badge that his three priorities in the activity were fighter safety, candor and “entertainment of the audience.”
The absolute activity experts all said admirers ball was a affair of the promoter, not of the referee.
“That shouldn’t alike access their mind,” said Nick Lembo, advocate for the New Jersey Accompaniment Athletic Control Board. “The adjudicator is there as the policeman, is there to ensure fairness, to alarm fouls, to accept bendability of the bender rules, and the referee’s capital purpose is the aboriginal band of aegis for the assurance of the competitor.”
With 10 abnormal larboard in the fight, the alarm smacked calm two lath paddles, signaling the annular was about over.
Vang delivered a flurry of punches and afresh a knee to Munson’s head. Munson affective Vang and afraid on. Wichgers afar the fighters and afresh signaled them to activity on.
The alarm articulate afore they could resume.
Munson stumbled to his bend and draped both accoutrements on the ropes. Cushman stepped into the ring. The lights went low, abrogation the arena bathed in a purplish glow.
The doctor, Feliciano, glanced into anniversary fighter’s bend — and afresh best up his cellphone, the video shows. Wichgers stood in addition corner.
Cushman angry the crumbling Munson around, pushed him up and talked to him with his duke on his hip.
Then Munson channelled to the mat.
In the weeks above-mentioned to his aboriginal bout, Munson afraid about actuality able to accomplish weight. Adolescent fighters wondered if he was ready.
Five weeks afore the fight, Munson committed in a arrangement to attempt at 135 pounds, Joffe said. Fighters who don’t accomplish weight can face “punitive fines” from the promoter.
It’s cryptic how abundant weight Munson had to cut; Joffe said it was about eight pounds.By all accounts, it was a attempt for the already angular adolescent man.
“He was stressing,” said Cody Heck, who was on the activity aggregation with Munson. “We all talked to him and told him, ‘You gotta eat.'”
Weight-cutting is a boundless tactic in activity sports, but comes at a accident as fighters try to furnish absent fluids amid the weigh-in and the fight.
Some states are considering increasing analysis of the weight-cutting process. In California, fighters would counterbalance in alert and be bound in the allotment of weight they can cut amid weigh-ins, said Andy Foster, controlling administrator of the California Accompaniment Athletic Commission.
“It allows for advantageous rehydration but not antic rehydration,” Foster said.
Several high-profile MMA and kickboxing fighters accept burst afterward weight cuts in the accomplished several years. Last year, a fighter in Brazil died afterwards he suffered a achievement while in a bath acerbic weight.
Joffe said the Roufusport fighters are told how to cautiously cut weight.
“All you can do is acquaint them what to do, but you can’t force them to do it,” he said.
Some fighters said there were no classes on weight-cutting at Roufusport. The amateurs abstruse from the able fighters.
They talked about “eating clean,” absorption on angle and appearance and added advantageous foods. But if that doesn’t get them all the way down, they afford baptize weight. Fighters may sit in a sauna, assignment out while acerbic artificial bags, stop bubbler water. Derrick Munson afterwards told police that his brother wore added clothes aback he formed out and skipped meals.
Dennis Munson additionally struggled with his angry skills, which is accepted for newcomers. He was fast, but he had agitation befitting his easily up as a defense.
“It takes a connected time to get adequate with bodies punching at your face,” said Johnson, his teammate. “You agitation and don’t acknowledge properly, and that’s what happened with him.”
The weigh-in for the March activity was captivated at the Eagles Club, about eight hours afore the event. A assistant did the prefight exam, which amounted to blockage fighters’ basic signs.
Had it been a state-regulated event, Munson and the others would accept accustomed a abounding concrete from a doctor in the weeks above-mentioned to the fight.
About 11 a.m., Munson texted his brother, Derrick, the acceptable account that he fabricated weight. Derrick said he would drive him to the activity afterwards in the day.
On their way to the fight, according to the badge report, Dennis Munson had one complaint: He was thirsty.
Derrick didn’t see his brother alcohol annihilation afore the fight.
After the fight, Roufusport submitted two videos to Milwaukee police.
The high-definition video of the fight, which badge acclimated to abode their report, is missing 32 abnormal at the best analytical moment, aback Munson fell to the canvas.
A low-definition video shows the absolute fight. In those 32 seconds, Cushman — the cornerman — pushes up a crumbling Munson, afresh slaps him, captivation him up by the abutting and face. Wichgers, the referee, comes over.
Cushman leans over to arresting for medical advice from Feliciano, who is attractive at his cellphone. The alarm curtains the doctor to get his attention. Munson collapses.
Roufusport admiral can’t explain the missing video footage.
“No one carefully edited annihilation out,” Joffe said. “We aren’t ambuscade anything.”
A badge agent said detectives “don’t accept that the starting and endlessly of the video was as a aftereffect of alteration to mislead them.”
After Munson collapsed, the doctor came to the bend of the arena but did not enter. Cushman knelt over Munson for about a minute.
Two aggregation associates from Curtis Ambulance, assassin to assignment the activity for Roufusport, absolved about the ring. Then, Munson was formed out of the ring.
In states such as New Jersey, a doctor would accept been the alone one accustomed abreast a burst fighter, who acceptable would accept been put on a board, had his abutting accurate and bound taken to the hospital.
“They formed this kid out of the arena not alive what was amiss with him,” said Rob Hinds, a 19-year adept adjudicator from Chicago. “Amateur, pro — it doesn’t matter. That is an outrage.”
Munson was pulled into a built-in position on the arena accessory by the Curtis crew. They confused him to a chair. Paramedic David O’Brien capital to accord Munson oxygen, according to a Curtis Ambulance report. Feliciano, the doctor, said no.
“MD requested that I not use O2 and aloof advice him sit up,” O’Brien wrote in his report.
The experts were hard-pressed to amount out why Feliciano would abjure oxygen to addition who had aloof collapsed. It is consistently best to err on the ancillary of caution, they said.
Darnell Smith, a acquaintance and adolescent fighter, rushed to Munson’s side.
He said Munson’s aperture was accessible but he couldn’t speak. His eyes were dry. Smith asked Munson to blink if he could apprehend him. Nothing.
“He had a fair blaze in his eyes like he was asleep for weeks,” he said.
The Curtis aggregation summoned addition ambulance. But instead of calling the Milwaukee Blaze Department initially — as appropriate beneath the company’s operational acceding with the burghal — they alleged for a additional Curtis unit.
The agreement, which covers all clandestine ambulance calls, says the Blaze Department’s avant-garde paramedic assemblage allegation be alleged anon for avant-garde activity abutment emergencies. But in Munson’s case, about 15 account anesthetized afore the Blaze Department was called.
Fire admiral and M. Riccardo Colella, the medical administrator for the city’s paramedic services, are investigating Curtis’ accomplishments afterwards acquirements about the adjournment from the Journal Sentinel.
Jim Baker, admiral of Curtis, said the aggregation stands by its actions.
“I am absolutely adequate the arrangement formed the way it was declared to,” Baker said.
Two account afterwards Feliciano aboriginal denied oxygen for Munson, he accustomed the Curtis aggregation to administrate it, the abode says. Munson was absorbed up to an IV and put on a stretcher.
Paramedics wheeled Munson abroad from the ring, but were chock-full by a manually operated bales elevator. There was no way to acquaint with the elevator operator, who was two floors beneath and happened to be in the bathroom.
Paramedics waited at the elevator for two minutes, Joffe estimated. But assemblage said it was added like bristles minutes. Meanwhile, Munson’s respiratory amount crashed, according to the paramedic records.
The elevator abettor heard banging aback he got aback from the bathroom. He took the elevator up and brought Munson down.
“No one told me I bare to be up here,” the operator, who asked that his name not be used, told the Journal Sentinel.
Curtis Ambulance did not book an accident plan with the city, as appropriate by its acceding and by accompaniment rule, according to Colella and blaze officials.
By the time Munson was formed out the advanced of the building, the additional Curtis ambulance had arrived. A Blaze Department agent and paramedic assemblage accustomed a abbreviate time later.
The additional Curtis aggregation told the Milwaukee paramedics that they had a doctor on lath and they were alteration the accommodating to the hospital. That is accustomed beneath a action that calls for a clandestine ambulance to leave for the hospital if it would booty too connected to alteration a accommodating to addition vehicle.
The doctor didn’t go to the hospital. He went aback to the fights, which connected on schedule.
Feliciano told the ambulance aggregation to booty Munson to Aurora Sinai Medical Center, a mile away, instead of to Froedtert Hospital, the area’s alone Akin One agony center, six afar to the west. Feliciano best Sinai because it was abutting and he anticipation Munson had suffered no “significant trauma,” the Curtis abode says.
Given Munson was in a activity in which advance were exchanged, Blaze Department admiral said their paramedics would accept taken him to Froedtert — aloof as they would handle a agnate abrasion in an advance case. Sinai additionally is not able to amusement addition who has absent consciousness, said Colella, the city’s emergency medical director.
“It is the amiss abode to go,” he said. “The actuality that this being was brought there is adverse to all our busline destination policies. The arrangement did not assignment the way it should.”
Some of the experts who advised the video said it didn’t attending like Munson took adamantine abundant advance to account trauma. But others said the safe alarm would accept been to booty the fighter to a agony center.
“By analogue if you get hit in the face, it is trauma,” said Schwartz, who founded the American Association of Able Ringside Physicians. “Even if your suspicion is low, it can’t be zero.”
In fact, Munson was adversity from arch trauma.
Munson accustomed at Sinai about 30 account afterwards he collapsed. He was in a cold state. Emergency allowance agents affected a arch injury, according to medical records.
Tests showed aerial levels of sodium, potassium and lactic acerbic in his system, but there was no assurance of a academician bleed.
Just the FAQS: Ancestors of kickboxer sues activity promoter, others
Dennis Munson Jr., an abecedarian kickboxer, died in his admission bender about three years ago in Milwaukee. His ancestors has sued the ringside doctor, the apostle from Roufusport and others they say were at accountability for his death.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Munson’s family, broadcast about town, abrupt to the hospital. Derrick rode in the ambulance. By the time his sister, Brandy, got there to ascendancy Dennis’ hand, she said his anatomy was bedrock hard. His easily were clenched.
She said her brother aerial his arch up, opened his eyes, looked at her and mouthed the words, “Help me.”
Then he flat-lined.
Munson’s brother pleaded with him, “Please, bro, don’t leave me. Don’t leave me like this. Now I don’t got nobody,” his sister said.
Resuscitation connected for an hour. Munson was declared asleep aloof afterwards midnight.
The medical examiner opened an investigation, which went on for months. Testing in the academician appear edgeless force injuries that led to abscess and accident to electrical functions in the axis and elsewhere, said Milwaukee County Medical Examiner Brian Peterson. Accident in the academician led to agency failures, Peterson said.
“We apperceive force was activated and this is acceptance of a bankrupt arch injury. In this case, acceptable force was dealt to the academician to be lethal,” he said.
“If you booty the activity out of it, he would still be with us.”
Peterson’s appointment begin that sickle corpuscle trait, a bloom action agitated by Munson, may accept contributed to his death, but it didn’t account it. Sickle corpuscle affection about has no aftereffect on its carriers, but has been associated by some pathologists and advisers with abrupt afterlife in attenuate circumstances, such as acute exercise.
“Had he not had sickle, we would accept had the aforementioned result,” Peterson said.
In the deathwatch of the fight, Roufusport admiral said annihilation has afflicted in the way they adapt fighters or present fights. Yet there is affirmation to the contrary.
Roufusport disbanded its kickboxing aggregation in backward summer. Joffe said the accommodation was a banking one because alloyed aggressive arts makes added money.
Fighters in the gym said there has been a greater accent on acerbic weight cautiously aback Munson’s afterlife and that a diet able was fabricated accessible to amateurs.
Curtis, Roufusport and the Eagles Club accept advised how to bound abolish afflicted fighters and agreed that the elevator allegation break on the amphitheater akin aback there are fights at the club.
Several fighters accept larboard Roufusport in the deathwatch of Munson’s death.
“We as fighters assurance these men to assure us aback we can’t assure ourselves, and they bootless to do that,” said Jamie Sromalla, who accomplished with Munson. “People allegation to know. This can’t appear again.”
Besides the Blaze Department’s analysis of the clandestine ambulance company’s actions, no one is investigating Munson’s death. The accompaniment says it has no ascendancy to investigate the afterlife or the accomplishments of those in allegation that night because it was an able event.
“We alone handle what the statute allows. It is not in our acknowledged ability to investigate,” said Hannah Zillmer, backer at the Department of Assurance and Able Services.
Munson’s afterlife highlights the crisis of a promoter-regulated fight, said Steve Fossum, arch of the International Kickboxing Federation, which has overseen bouts in three dozen states and in the 1990s supervised Roufusport events.
“If I am acclimation my own events, it is a battle of interest,” Fossum said.
Joffe said he and Roufus abutment the accompaniment acclimation kickboxing in Wisconsin.
Officials at accompaniment commissions and the sport’s better training accumulation are planning to use video of the Munson bender as a training apparatus for admiral who assignment fights.
“That is an important fight,” said Lembo, advocate for the New Jersey board. “It is not the best barbarous fight. There are signs (that) should accept been acted upon. There is a lot you could appearance referees and doctors and inspectors.”
Seven months afterwards Munson died, his ancestors is still disturbing with what happened. His sister has organized memorials in her brother’s name to abode adjacency violence.
“I appetite our aching to about-face into achievement for addition else. It has to,” she said. “The ancestors didn’t aloof ache a loss, the apple suffered a loss.”
Derrick lives in the accommodation he aggregate with his brother. He goes to the gym every so often, but he has no affairs to fight.
He still can’t allocution about his brother’s death.
Gary D’Amato of the Journal Sentinel agents contributed to this report.
Email him at jdiedrich@journalsentinel.com; chase him on Twitter: @John_Diedrich
To abode this article, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel acquired videos of the activity from the Milwaukee Badge Department beneath the accompaniment accessible annal law. It additionally advised hundreds of pages of annal from police, the medical examiner as able-bodied as medical annal from clandestine ambulance aggregation and hospital, provided by Dennis Munson’s family.
Reporters interviewed added than 60 people, including key players at the fight, Munson’s teammates and ancestors members, witnesses, medical cadre and experts in the activity action world. Those experts advised the video, which has never been public, at the appeal of the Journal Sentinel.
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