Last week David Diamante was in Manchester, England, working as the ring announcer for a boxing match Today, he wonders if he will ever walk again
It’s Sunday, and Diamante is calling from a hospital bed at NYU Langone Health in New York. A heart monitor beeps in the background. A nurse interrupts the call to check his vitals. An orderly drops by to take his lunch order. A week earlier, Diamante was in Manchester, England, working as the ring announcer forof pain. “It's really hard to do anything when you're in this much pain.
“It's like if you're walking and you slip on black ice, and you f---ing land on your ass, you fall so fast, you can't catch yourself,” says Diamante. “That's what I remember, the bike just went out from under me.” At the hospital, the doctors ran him through a battery of scans. There were three fractures in his spine. Several broken ribs. The flesh from his right knee was torn to the bone. He underwent five hours of surgery. Nine screws were inserted into his back. Multiple rods, too. “My back is basically metal,” says Diamante. Cadaver parts were placed on his spine to, hopefully, facilitate healing.
Many know David Diamante. They know the long hair and the booming voice. They know the signature catch phrase and the palpable enthusiasm for boxing. But fewDiamante. They don’t know that he first tried drugs in fifth grade and became addicted in his teens. That he did it, he says, to “self medicate” because of the violence he was experiencing, some at home, some in the rough streets of the Washington, D.C.-area. That in 1988, in a moment of clarity, he vowed to never cut his hair again.
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