{"id":56190,"date":"2025-08-09T21:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T21:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56190\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T21:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T21:03:08","slug":"japanese-boxer-dies-after-fight-suffers-serious-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56190\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese boxer dies after fight, suffers serious injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                Japanese boxer dies after fight, suffers serious injuries                    <\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/kotari-600x360.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        Boxing<\/p>\n<p>                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/53563569_10156045369476711_2204917977906675712_n-96x96.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        Express newspaper<br \/>\n                        09\/08\/2025 19:50<\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block\">Japanese boxer Shigetoshi Kotari, 28, died on Friday from injuries sustained during a fight.\u00eb his match with Yamato Hata on August 2.<\/p>\n<p>The super-featherweight boxer was taken to hospital after the fight in Tokyo, where he underwent emergency brain surgery to treat a subdural hematoma &#8211; a condition where blood collects between the skull and the brain.<\/p>\n<p>The Japan Boxing Commission announced that Kotari was one of two boxers who required brain surgery after the event, along with Hiromasa Urakawa, who underwent a craniotomy following his bout with Yoji Saito.<\/p>\n<p>International organizations such as the World Boxing Organization (WBO) and the World Boxing Council (WBC) were among those who paid tribute to the boxer, who had a record of eight wins, two losses and two draws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japanese boxer dies after fight, suffers serious injuries Boxing Express newspaper 09\/08\/2025 19:50 Japanese boxer Shigetoshi Kotari, 28,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-56190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}