The nurses at Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm made what is described as a “light wakeup” at 4 PM of former WBC female superfeather champ Frida Wallberg and there was a positive response reports svt.se quoting Frida´s boyfriend and promoter Robert Stridsberg.
She was however put back to sleep and and there will be further checkups.
Swedish media insists that Wallberg was knocked out twice which is incorrect – she was floored twice in the eighth last night and then stopped and she should perhaps have been stopped from coming out for round eight as well as she was staggered in the seventh and didn´t seem to recover well – all easy to say from favourite your TV chair of course.
There will now be an investigation from the Swedish Federation on how this could happen and there are already some talks that Wallberg wasn´t correctly prepared for the fight – but that let´s first and formost get an explanation to why the doctor – Robert Ludwig who´s been a boxing doctor for decades now – could misjudge the situation as he did. Wallberg´s trainer, William Nguesseu, a former boxer who had to retire after a headinjury, is not happy at all with dr Ludwig but let´s mention again that without Lucia Rijker, Diana Prazak´s trainer, this could have been even worse. Rijker quickly saw something was wrong and tried to work with Wallberg and then called for the doctor to return – and only then did the ambulance people arrive with oxygene
15.06 Wallberg update
