LONDON - Battersea middleweight Gilbert Eastman has come out of the coma into which he sank following a fight with Sam Webb at York Hall in Bethnal Green on Friday night.
The Guyana-born boxer was taken to the Royal London Hospital after being stopped in the last second of the eight-round contest having suffered a blood clot on the brain.
Patrice Eastman, Gilbert’s wife, told former boxer Spencer Fearon that he was expected to make a full recovery.
“At around six o’clock [on Sunday evening] he woke up,” Fearon told Setanta.
“He can now move all of his limbs. He can speak a little bit, but they’ve told him not to speak because they don’t want him to over-exert himself at present.
“They expect him to make a full recovery.”
The trainer of Eastman, 35, described how it was not immediately apparent that his charge’s health was in danger following the fight.
“Gilbert didn’t collapse in the ring, he walked under his own steam to the dressing room,” Winston Fuller said. “Halfway through changing his clothes he was talking to us and then just collapsed.
“They [the medics] put a neck collar on him because he hit his neck when he fell back onto the ropes.”
Eastman, a former Commonwealth welterweight title challenger and Southern Area light middleweight champion, was fighting Webb on the undercard of Ian Napa’s European bantamweight title victory against Carmelo Ballone.
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