April 3, 2005. This is 02:00 in Washington.
Stephen Wilers are awakened by “dreaded call”. One voice said: “Is Becky Zarlents your wife?”
“I said ‘yes’, and Denver Health Medical Center and Hospital official told me that I needed to go to the airport as soon as possible. His condition was deteriorating.”
Until that day, a female boxer in the United States was never killed in an approved fight.
Due to the disastrous blow, the Zerlants – who won a regional boxing title three years ago – wrote history again.
While the stories of fighters like Johnny Owen and like Jimmy Doyle, external History lies, the impact of the death of the Zerlants on the community in Denver and on those who loved him, remain private.
The love affair of the Zarlents with Combat Sports defined her life, every time she stepped inside the boundaries of a boxing ring or MMA Cage, a huge crowd.
Like most amateur fighters, 34 -year -old Zeralants adopted a career away from ropes, earning a master and PhD, working as a geography and economics professor in the Larimer County campus of the Front Range Community College.
The discussion she enjoyed inside the classroom was complementary with her love of sports, especially in war.
On the night of that battle, the wileer lived in the US capital, continuing his three -year stay in the country’s central banking system, Federal Reserve.
He was constantly asked by Zeralants to return to Fort Colins, the former military post veil in the foothills of Rocky Mountains, and promised that it would be soon.
Facing the Heather Shamitz, Zarlantas was participating in the Colorado State Boxing Senior Women’s Championships at Denver Collizium in Colorado, a place that camped over 10,000 people when anger against rolling stones or machine has been in the city. Both women wore a protective headgier.
Zeralants worked for two rounds, trading punch with Shamitz until third.
With a blow on the head, just above his left eye, Zeralants moved forward, hit the canvas and fainted – a kingdom he will remain until his death the next morning.
“The doctor in the ring said that his students were fixed and diluted when he first saw her and already had a chance that brain damage was done,” Weller, now a professor, said.
The wilers were on a flight to Denver by 06:30 and immediately made their way to the hospital. There he saw Zeralants.
He said, “The amount of damage to Becky’s brain was notable that it was a large extent.”
“It was not a difficult hit … but the brain reached such an extent that it could not work anymore.”
Life supported zerletes were placed, failing, and that “clinically he was already dead in the ring”, the wileer remembered.
And then he had to make an option.
“About that morning, this decision was taken, knowing that his situation was deteriorating, I made the option that it was time,” he said.
The reaction to his death was immediate.
The entire Danver was filled. Co -workers, students, and others who knew the Zerlants, describe the warmth and penance of one of the columns of the college and community.
