{"id":56782,"date":"2025-08-10T03:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T03:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56782\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T03:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T03:17:06","slug":"irreparable-loss-two-japanese-boxers-on-same-card-die-from-brain-injuries-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/56782\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Irreparable loss\u2019: Two Japanese boxers on same card die from brain injuries | Boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Two Japanese boxers have died days after suffering brain injuries in separate fights on the same card, boxing associations and media reports said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Shigetoshi Kotari died on Friday and Hiromasa Urakawa on Saturday after being injured in their fights at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo on 2 August, Japanese media said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Both 28-year-old boxers underwent operations for subdural haematoma, or bleeding inside the skull, the reports said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWe extend our deepest condolences to the families, friends, and the Japanese boxing community during this incredibly difficult time,\u201d the World <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/boxing\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boxing<\/a> Organisation said in a statement on Saturday about Urakawa, who had lost to Yoji Saito in a knockout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Kotari died as a result of the injury he sustained while fighting Yamato Hata to a draw in 12 rounds, the World Boxing Council said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThe WBC and its president, Mauricio Sulaiman, deeply mourn this irreparable loss and wish his family and friends strength during this difficult time,\u201d the WBC said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Another boxer, 28-year-old Irish super-featherweight fighter John Cooney, died of a brain injury this year after being stopped in his first Celtic title defence in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Japanese boxers have died days after suffering brain injuries in separate fights on the same card, boxing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-56782","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\/56782","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=56782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}