Boxing: Australian champion in fight for life

SYDNEY: Australian world middleweight champion Shannan Taylor was on life support in hospital after suffering from a drug overdose, according to the Daily Telegraph. A hospital official confirmed that Taylor, 39, was in a critical condition. Taylor defeated Thailand’s Sintung Kietbusaba in Wollongong last month to win the vacant World Boxing Foundation middleweight title. He has a 52-10 record with 37 knockouts. Taylor’s biggest fight was against Shane Mosley for the WBC welterweight title in 2001 in Las Vegas, with the American winning the bout.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 29^th, 2011.