Sometimes a person has to choose between health and money, at times life and death in the pursuit financial well-being for self and family. And in the history of world boxing, the cost indeed can be very high. A slice of Z "The Dream" Gorres' skull remains stored in a biologic refrigeration system at a facility outside San Diego. The piece of bone, about the size of a man's hand, had to be removed after the bantamweight boxer's Nov. 13 fight at Mandalay Bay's House of Blues. The 27-year-old's battered brain needed room to swell, according to University Medical Center trauma surgeon Dr. Michael Casey. Had the opening not been made, the swelling within the tight confines of his skull would have compressed his brain stem, shut down his breathing and also his heart. He would have died. Read more.
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