{"id":98028,"date":"2025-08-26T21:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T21:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/98028\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T21:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T21:06:07","slug":"japanese-boxers-die-after-fights-prompting-safety-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/98028\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Boxers Die After Fights, Prompting Safety Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">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.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"None of this is new information, of course, but the more prevalent it becomes, the more pressing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,71848,1920,6653,71847,71845,47188,71846,45482,85],"class_list":["post-98028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-and-medicine","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-fatalities-in-boxing","tag-ginjiro-shigeooka","tag-hiromasa-urakawa","tag-japanese-boxing","tag-shigetoshi-kotari","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98028","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=98028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}