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Swedish boxer Skoglund recovering after waking up from coma

SWEDISH boxer Erik Skoglund was showing signs of recovery yesterday after being woken from his medically induced coma.

Super-middleweight Skoglund, 26, had been in “a serious yet stable condition” after surgery earlier this month having fallen ill at the end of a training session.

He last fought on September 16 when losing to Britain’s Callum Smith in the World Boxing Super Series quarter-final contest in Liverpool.

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