A collage of tremendous featherweight Shigetoshi Kotari and light-weight Hiromasa Urakawa (proper). — Instagram/worldboxingorg
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 “passed away at 10:59pm on August 8,” his MT boxing health club mentioned on its web site Saturday.
“He did his best to fight his way through the surgery and treatment he had been receiving at a Tokyo hospital due to acute subdural haematoma,” the health club’s submit mentioned.
Urakawa was stopped within the eighth and closing spherical in opposition to Yoji Saito and “tragically succumbed to injuries sustained during his fight”, the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) mentioned in an Instagram submit on Sunday.
Urakawa died on Saturday evening, in keeping with native media reviews.
Tsuyoshi Yasukochi, secretary-general of the Japan Boxing Fee, advised native media after their hospitalisation that it was seemingly “the first time in Japan two fighters underwent skull-opening surgery for injuries stemming from the same event”.
