July 23 (UPI) -- Junior welterweight Maxim Dadashev died Tuesday morning as a result of brain injuries he sustained in a knockout loss last week.
The World Boxing Council announced that Dadashev, 28, died at UM Prince George's Hospital Center in Cheverly, Md. He was taken there after an 11th-round loss to Subriel Matias on Friday night at the MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md.