Super-featherweight boxer John Cooney is in intensive care after his defeat by Welshman Nathan Howells in Belfast on Saturday.
The contest was stopped in the ninth round at the Ulster Hall in what was Cooney's first defence of his Celtic super-featherweight title.
In a statement on Monday, Cooney's promoter Mark Dunlop said his fighter suffered "an intracranial haemorrhage and underwent immediate surgery to relieve the pressure on his brain".
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