In this July 17, 2019 photo, old boxing gloves lay on the floor of a boxing gym in the Villa El Salvador shantytown in Lima, Peru. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
By The Canadian Press
Sep 29, 2025 | 1:40 PM
WINNIPEG — A man has died after suffering what appears to have been a medical emergency during a charity boxing match in Winnipeg.
Boxing Canada, the governing body of Olympic-style boxing, says Robert Boyko, a man in his 50s who was in his first-ever competition, collapsed during the third and final round.
The group’s executive director, Christopher Lindsay, says a ringside doctor attended to Boyko, but Boyko appears to have had a cardiac event and was taken to hospital.
Lindsay says boxers at his group’s sanctioned events undergo annual medical exams and are screened by a doctor before each event.