{"id":163601,"date":"2025-09-23T10:51:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/163601\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T10:51:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:51:23","slug":"alberta-rcmp-deem-death-of-amateur-fighter-not-suspicious-conclude-investigation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/163601\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta RCMP deem death of amateur fighter not suspicious, conclude investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sport Minister Andrew Boitchenko said last week the review was ongoing.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are reviewing the options right now across the province and country to see how other jurisdictions are handling this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is on our radar and we are currently talking to other organizations to see what\u2019s the best way to deal with this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before Dousuah\u2019s death, an inquiry report into the 2017 death of Edmonton boxer Tim Hague recommended the province regulate combative sporting events instead of allowing them to operate through a patchwork of commissions.<\/p>\n

Alberta is the only province in Canada that doesn\u2019t have a provincial regulatory body for combative sports.<\/p>\n

Ultra MMA, which organized the Enoch event, is linked to U.K.-based Ultra Events Ltd., a company previously cited for safety concerns in the death of a novice boxer named Dominic Chapman at a 2022 charity match in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

A June 2024 report into Chapman\u2019s death by a senior coroner in Worcestershire, U.K., urged Ultra Events Ltd. to improve its safety standards.<\/p>\n

\u201cChapman sustained a fatal head injury in the course of a charity boxing match organized by Ultra Events Ltd.,\u201d coroner David Reid says in the report, which was released almost six months before Dousuah died.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my opinion, there is a concern that future deaths will occur unless action is taken.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response to the report, Ultra Events Ltd. promised stricter record keeping of weight discrepancies between fighters, stricter rules on risk assessments and event-specific medical plans.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 22, 2025.<\/p>\n

Fakiha Baig, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sport Minister Andrew Boitchenko said last week the review was ongoing. \u201cWe are reviewing the options right now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-163601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163601","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=163601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}