Boxer Mike Towell told a doctor he was “feeling great and ready to box” in the weeks before his death, a fatal accident inquiry has heard.
Dr Scott Henderson, who is on the list of approved doctors by the British Boxing Board of Control, saw Mr Towell on or around September 6, 2016 for stomach and neck pain.
The doctor – who carried out Iron Mike’s annual boxing medical in February 2016 – examined the boxer at the 1314 gym in Stirling and advised him to see his GP.
He said Mr Towell was “actively training” and had told him he only had one episode of pain in his stomach, while the pain in his neck was mild.
The inquiry has heard the boxer subsequently visited his GP and was prescribed asprin.
Dr Henderson said he phoned Mr Towell the following week and learned he had seen his GP, was “feeling great” and claimed he’d had an ultrasound.
While he suspected the time was too short for Mr Towell to have received an ultrasound, he said there had been no cause for concern.
He told the inquiry, however, that Mr Towell did not tell him about the intermittent headaches he had suffered, nor that he had visited A&E at Ninewells Hospital in the intervening period.
The doctor gave evidence at the probe into the 25-year-old fighter’s death at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
Mr Towell, from Dundee, died of a bleed on the brain the day after he lost a bout in the fifth round to Welsh fighter Dale Evans on September 29, 2016.
He was given medical treatment in the ring before being taken to hospital but died 24 hours later on September 30.
Asked what was said by the boxer during his follow-up call, Dr Henderson replied: “He told me he had no ongoing symptoms and that the abdominal pain hadn’t returned.
“He was feeling great and ready to box.”
The inquiry before Sheriff Principal Craig Turnbull continues.