Japan boxing to hold emergency meeting following fighters’ deaths

Boxers Shigetoshi Kotari and Hiromasa Urakawa died pursuing fights connected the aforesaid paper successful Tokyo past week.

Japanese boxing officials volition clasp an exigency gathering connected Tuesday arsenic the athletics successful the state faces aggravated scrutiny pursuing the deaths of 2 fighters successful abstracted bouts astatine the aforesaid event.

Super featherweight Shigetoshi Kotari and lightweight Hiromasa Urakawa, some 28, fought connected the aforesaid paper astatine Tokyo’s Korakuen Hall connected August 2 and died days aboriginal pursuing encephalon surgery.

The Japan Boxing Commission (JBC), gym owners and different boxing officials are nether unit to enactment and volition clasp an exigency gathering connected Tuesday.

They are besides expected to person talks astir information adjacent month, section media said.

“We are acutely alert of our work arsenic the manager of the sport,” Tsuyoshi Yasukochi, secretary-general of the JBC, told reporters connected Sunday.

“We volition instrumentality immoderate measures we can.”

Japanese media highlighted the risks of fighters dehydrating to suffer value rapidly earlier weigh-ins.

“Dehydration makes the encephalon much susceptible to bleeding,” the Asahi Shimbun paper said.

That is 1 of the issues the JBC plans to sermon with trainers.

“They privation to perceive from gym officials who enactment intimately with the athletes astir specified items arsenic value nonaccomplishment methods and pre-bout conditioning, which whitethorn beryllium causally related (to deaths),” the Nikkan Sports paper said.

In 1 contiguous measure, the committee has decided to trim each Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation rubric bouts to 10 rounds from 12.

“The violative powerfulness of Japanese boxing contiguous is tremendous,” Yasukochi was quoted by the Asahi Shimbun arsenic telling reporters.

“We person much and much boxers who are capable to commencement exchanges of fierce blows from the archetypal round. Maybe 12 rounds tin beryllium dangerous.”

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