NEW YORK - Kelly Pavlik's life was in peril.
An allergic reaction to medication had caused the middleweight champion's temperature to soar past 40 C, and his heart rate to 150 beats a minute. When he was finally admitted to the hospital, the sweat was pouring off his body, which had turned shades of red and purple.
An infectious diseases specialist at the Cleveland Clinic told his father, Mike Pavlik, that the 27-year-old fighter had better keep fighting. The outlook was grim.
"I'm not a medical man," Mike Pavlik said, "but he was really close to the edge that day."
What began as a small staph infection on the knuckle of his left hand, where Pavlik had received a cortisone injection, had somehow spiralled to this: A strapping young man who makes his living relentlessly pushing his body to the extreme was bedridden, his wife Samantha keeping vigil over him while doctors figured out what went wrong. READ MORE
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