Farrago said he didn't know where to reach the doctors. In a February 2014 report, Farrago told Outside the Lines there was no sense of urgency in the locker room about Abdusalamov's condition until after the doctors left, when Farrago saw a bloody urine sample. Abdusalamov's handlers said commission doctors elected against sending him to the hospital in an on-site ambulance and told them he would need to be examined within days of his return home to Florida. ESPNĪbdusalamov, who went the 10-round distance in a unanimous and bloody defeat, suffered a facial fracture, a broken hand and a deep laceration above his eye that required stitches. Seen here is a photo of evidence from Magomed Abdusalamov's negligence case, one of his hand wraps that was kept by athletic commission inspector Matt Farrago, who was later fired. He said he was eventually fired by David Berlin, who was appointed executive director of the commission in March 2014. Days later, with Abdusalamov in a coma following emergency brain surgery and the night's events under investigation by the state, the commission suspended Farrago.įarrago admitted in the deposition that against commission policy, he photographed Abdusalamov before and after the fight to have authentication of the wraps. A commission spokesman said the NYSAC has no comment.Ī former middleweight fighter, Farrago was paid $52 to serve as the commission's inspector assigned to Abdusalamov for his Theater at Madison Square Garden bout against Mike Perez. "His job is to watch for my guy's safety every second - almost like a bodyguard - from start to finish, and surveillance video showed that he left the locker room while Abdusalamov was still in it."Ĭontacted by Outside the Lines, Farrago said he is represented by the state attorney general and was instructed against speaking with anyone while the Abdusalamov case is in litigation.
"His integrity, as the only commission official with my client at the end, was compromised by the fact that he became to some degree a fan with an ulterior motive having nothing to do with safety," said Paul Edelstein, attorney for the Abdusalamovs. He did this despite being warned against the practice after he said he'd taken other fighters' wraps to sell and raise money for the Ring10 charity he runs to benefit indigent boxers. According to lawyers who represent the plaintiff and another defendant, and were contacted by Outside the Lines, Farrago said in a deposition Thursday that he took the wraps Abdusalamov wore underneath his gloves and walked away with Gennady Golovkin's hand wraps after the next fight on the card.
2, 2013, heavyweight bout and aftermath that left Abdusalamov severely brain damaged. The inspector, Matt Farrago, is one of the officials being sued over the Nov. With depositions barely underway in the negligence and medical malpractice suit pitting disabled ex-boxer Magomed Abdusalamov and his family against the doctors and officials from his ill-fated final fight, the bout's inspector acknowledged the New York State Athletic Commission fired him for violating a commission directive.
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