Boxing icon Frank Bruno undergoes scans amid fears his brain is on 'slow decline'

Former satellite heavyweight boxing champion Frank Bruno is having scans connected his encephalon amid concerns the 62-year-old whitethorn beryllium "on a dilatory decline", his girl Rachel has revealed

Former satellite heavyweight champion boxer Frank Bruno has been undergoing tests successful hospital, with doctors fearing his "brain mightiness beryllium connected a dilatory decline".

Bruno, who bushed Oliver McCall to triumph the WBC rubric successful 1995, had 45 nonrecreational fights in his illustrious 14-year career. He retired successful 1996 aft losing the rubric to Mike Tyson with a 40-5 record, having been knocked retired successful each 5 defeats.

And doctors are present trying to find whether the harm helium suffered from boxing person affected his brain. "We person learned precocious that his encephalon mightiness beryllium connected a dilatory decline," Bruno's daughter, Rachel said.

"They are conscionable doing scans and tests astatine the moment. With the interaction of his vocation and changeless knocks to the head, it's evidently astir apt not helped. We don't cognize however accelerated his encephalon is going to decline. It's bittersweet but we're a beardown household and we privation to cherish these moments."

The Sun besides punctuation a root adjacent to the erstwhile boxer arsenic saying: "Frank's successful a large spot astatine the infinitesimal and feeling fitter and healthier than helium has successful years. Each week helium volition beryllium astatine 3 oregon 4 events talking astir his vocation and working. All retired boxers person regular checks, and Frank is nary different."

Bruno has been unfastened astir his struggles with his intelligence wellness implicit the years, having spent respective weeks successful antithetic hospitals to person attraction for bipolar disorder. During the coronavirus lockdown successful 2021, Bruno was sectioned nether the Mental Health enactment and aboriginal admitted helium had deed "rock bottom".

"It has been the hardest and astir terrifying clip of my life," helium told The Sun. "I deed stone bottommost and ­suffered a breakdown. For my ain information and for the information of others, I was sectioned and taken backmost into hospital, I had to look up to the information my unwellness had returned aft years of keeping a lid connected it.

"I had to combat for my sanity and determination were times I feared I wouldn't get done it. Being locked up against your volition is the worst happening you tin ever imagine. It’s 10 times scarier than boxing. Being successful a infirmary for weeks during the pandemic lone made it each the much terrifying.

"But, thankfully, not slightest owed to the enactment and emotion of household and friends, I was capable to propulsion myself distant from the cliff-edge. I'm inactive standing. All the regular and operation successful my world ­vanished.

"Work started to beryllium ­cancelled. Gyms closed. And the wellness spa adjacent my house, which is similar a 2nd home, unopen too. I rapidly felt similar a spot of a captive successful my ain location and my unwellness started to instrumentality clasp again. Then, erstwhile I started to suffer friends to Covid, it was similar a ­perfect tempest was crashing astir supra my head."

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