Binghamton "Consensual" Dorm Boxing Match Death

Anders Uwadinobi, a freshman from the Bronx, was "play" fighting with a friend in a dorm room at SUNY Binghamton when he suffered fatal injuries Sunday night. An autopsy is being conducted, but a student who witnessed the situation when he heard screams to call 911 said he saw Uwadinobi "shaking" and seizing. The 18-year-old was pronounced dead on arrival at Wilson Memorial Regional Medical Center.

The student told the Post, "They were playing around. It wasn't serious." Binghamton University's Pipe Dream reports that all the furniture out of the common room at the Mohawk dorm had been removed to make room for the sparring and that the boxing opponent was a friend of Uwadinobi's.

A school official said Uwadinobi and the other student were both wearing helmets and gloves; it's believed the death was accidental. And apparently Uwadinobi was stabbed three months earlier by another student who had filed a harassment report against him.

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By Jen Chung in News on December 4, 2007 8:09 AM

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rozl

You know, accidents do happen. for anyone who has anything rude to say take ur comments somewhere else. this guy was my friend. nah mean? yeh well they never spoke like that, racist comment much??

babyhitler

BINGHAMTON has gone to the birds. I remember back in the day when it was a big ass parking lot on the CIW hill.

Amanda Harletsch

Playing tough!?...there you have!

Common sense never goes out of style

GOP

zodak, you forgot to add the "nah mean?"

"We was just playin', nah mean? nah sayin'?"

zodak

"we was just playin"

AHT

Digman resident, but the fight took place in Mohawk, which is the "new" dorm in CIW, if memory serves.

apollonia666

He was from the Bronx, babyhitler. It's in the first line of the post.

babyhitler

why is this news on gothamist? does someone here go to binghamton or something. gothamist is NYC correct? binghamton is upstate

Rocknrope

I wonder what dorm it was. Newing?

ny2102

A couple thoughts (as someone who has trained and fought before) about this sad event:

(a) Headgear (which are not the same as helmets) mostly protects against cuts and burns, not concussions or head trauma. (Double-sided mouthpieces do more to protect against those things).

(b) It seems unlikely that play fighting would cause anyone to seize or die, so I would guess there was some pre-condition.