David Diamante is choking back tears.
If we’re being honest … at times, I was too.
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 for Joseph Parker’s win over Dereck Chisora. Today he wonders if he will ever walk again.
“There's also a lot of pain,” says Diamante.