Editing Michael Watson (section)

===Rematch with Eubank and career-ending injury===
A rematch was arranged on 21 September 1991 at [[White Hart Lane]], this time for the vacant WBO super middleweight title. In round 11, with Watson ahead on points and seemingly on the verge of a stoppage victory, he knocked Eubank down with an overhand right. Moments later, Eubank was back on his feet and connected with a devastating uppercut, which caused Watson to fall back and hit the back of his head against the ropes. 

Referee Roy Francis stopped the fight in round 12, after which Watson collapsed in the ring. There was no ambulance or paramedic at the event.<ref name="MarathonEnd" /> Doctors wearing dinner jackets arrived but only after more than eight minutes had elapsed, during which time the fallen fighter received no oxygen. A total of 28 minutes elapsed before Watson received treatment in a hospital [[neurosurgical]] unit.<ref name="Super-boxing">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/boxingandmma/3012877/%60Super-boxing%27-plan-for-safer%2C-better-bouts.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130422061607/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/boxingandmma/3012877/%60Super-boxing%27-plan-for-safer,-better-bouts.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 April 2013|title=Super-boxing' plan for safer, better bouts|last=Lewis|first=Mike|date=15 September 2001|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|accessdate=12 January 2009}}</ref><ref name="TalkBoxing">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/boxingandmma/3013208/Talking-Boxing-Life-saving-comfort-for-Michael-Watson.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505064204/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/boxingandmma/3013208/Talking-Boxing-Life-saving-comfort-for-Michael-Watson.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 May 2013|title=Talking Boxing: Life-saving comfort for Michael Watson|last=Mee|first=Bob|date=20 September 2001|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|accessdate=12 January 2009}}</ref> He spent 40 days in a [[coma]] and had six brain operations to remove a blood clot.<ref name="SPOTY">{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/3318795.stm|title=Watson's epic fightback|date=14 December 2003|work=[[BBC Sport]]|publisher=[[BBC]]|accessdate=12 January 2009}}</ref>

After regaining consciousness, he spent over a year in intensive care and rehabilitation and six more years confined to a wheelchair<ref name="MarathonEnd"/> while he slowly recovered some movement and regained the ability to speak and write. Peter Hamlyn, the consultant [[neurosurgeon]] who operated on Watson, said in 2010, "I think back to those first days, and the milestone moments. The first eight months were so depressing. He couldn't hear, couldn't speak, couldn't walk. Slowly, he clawed it all back. So extraordinary".<ref name=" GA Davies_The Daily Telegraph">{{cite news
| url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/athletics/london-marathon/8269871/London-Marathon-2011-Michael-Watson-still-showing-his-fighting-spirit-by-helping-Brain-and-Spine-Foundation.html
|title = London Marathon 2011: Michael Watson still showing his fighting spirit by helping Brain & Spine Foundation
| date  = 20 January 2011
| author = Gareth A Davies
| work = [[The Daily Telegraph]]
| accessdate = 20 January 2011
}}</ref>