None of this is new information, of course, but the more prevalent it becomes, the more pressing the issue becomes. Japan, especially, has had a rough time of it of late, with the deaths on August 2 coming less than two years after another Japanese boxer, Kazuki Anaguchi, died following a December 2023 bout in Tokyo. Earlier this year, too, Ginjiro Shigeoka, a 25-year-old minimumweight, collapsed following a fight in Osaka and had to undergo brain surgery as a result. He remains in a coma three months later, though his condition is no longer life-threatening, thankfully.Â
