TOKYO: Two boxers in Japan have died from mind accidents they incurred in separate bouts throughout the identical occasion in Tokyo, officers mentioned.
Tremendous featherweight Shigetoshi Kotari and light-weight Hiromasa Urakawa, each 28, fought on the identical card in Tokyo’s Korakuen Corridor on August 2.
Each had been later rushed to hospital the place they’d mind surgical procedure.
Kotari, who battled to a draw after 12 rounds in opposition to fellow Japanese fighter Yamato Hata misplaced consciousness quickly after and “handed away at 10:59pm on August 8,” his MT boxing fitness center mentioned on its web site Saturday.
“He did his finest to struggle his approach via the surgical procedure and therapy he had been receiving at a Tokyo hospital as a result of acute subdural haematoma,” the fitness center’s publish mentioned.
Urakawa was stopped within the eighth and closing spherical in opposition to Yoji Saito and “tragically succumbed to accidents sustained throughout his struggle”, the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) mentioned in an Instagram publish on Sunday.
Urakawa died on Saturday evening, in accordance with native media reviews.
“This heartbreaking information comes simply days after the passing of Shigetoshi Kotari, who died from accidents suffered in his struggle on the identical card,” the WBO mentioned, including it extends “our deepest condolences to the households, buddies, and the Japanese boxing neighborhood.”
Tsuyoshi Yasukochi, secretary-general of the Japan Boxing Fee, advised native media after their hospitalisation that it was seemingly “the primary time in Japan two fighters underwent skull-opening surgical procedure for accidents stemming from the identical occasion”.
