{"id":109006,"date":"2025-08-31T03:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T03:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/109006\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T03:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T03:06:07","slug":"attack-and-never-give-up-inside-japans-deadly-boxing-scene-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/109006\/","title":{"rendered":"Attack and never give up: Inside Japan&#8217;s deadly boxing scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drastic weight loss, ferocious sparring and lax regulation have created a dangerous environment in Japanese boxing, as the sport battles for its future in the country <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/sports\/2025\/08\/15\/more-sports\/boxing-deaths-safety-measures\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after two fighters died following the same event.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Super featherweight Shigetoshi Kotari and lightweight Hiromasa Urakawa, both 28, fought separate bouts on the same card at Tokyo&#8217;s Korakuen Hall on Aug. 2 and died days later following brain surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Another Japanese boxer died after a bout in Tokyo in December 2023 and one more has been in a coma since May this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drastic weight loss, ferocious sparring and lax regulation have created a dangerous environment in Japanese boxing, as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,38162,44784,61816,37442,82],"class_list":["post-109006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-hiromasa-urakawa","tag-japan-boxing-commission","tag-japan-pro-boxing-association","tag-shigetoshi-kotari","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}