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A boxer’s new fight

A boxer’s new fight

Update: 2019-11-04

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In 2015, Prichard Colon suffered a major brain injury after a boxing match gone wrong. Specialists predicted he’d spend the rest of his life in a vegetative state. He can’t walk or talk, but he survived; now Colon is slowly trying to rebuild his life.

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A boxer’s new fight

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