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Nick Blackwell: Trainer Liam Wilkins has licence withdrawn after sparring session

Nick Blackwell


Coach Liam Wilkins has had his permit pulled back in the wake of regulating the fighting session that left resigned boxer Nick Blackwell in healing facility.

Hasan Karkardi has been suspended for six months for fighting with Blackwell, who was left obliging surgery to decrease swelling on his cerebrum.

The British Boxing Board of Control said Wilkins' direct was "unfavorable to the interests of boxing".

Blackwell, 26, resigned subsequent to torment a seep on the skull in March.

He spent seven days in an incited trance like state in the wake of losing his British middleweight title battle with Chris Eubank Jr.

Regardless of Blackwell not having a permit to battle, and in spite of him being prompted not to come back to the ring, he competed with Karkardi, 29, on 22 November at a confining club Devizes, Wiltshire.

On Wednesday, a relative told BBC Sport Blackwell is still not able to walk, and a year from making a full recuperation.

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