{"id":57361,"date":"2025-08-09T17:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T17:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/57361\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T17:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T17:16:13","slug":"boxer-shigetoshi-kotari-dies-at-age-28-from-injuries-suffered-in-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/57361\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxer Shigetoshi Kotari Dies at Age 28 from Injuries Suffered in Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The World Boxing Organization <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WorldBoxingOrg\/status\/1953878963719192830\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">announced<\/a> Friday that Shigetoshi Kotari died at the age of 28 from injuries suffered during his fight against Yamato Hata on Aug. 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">According to <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cvgv4ryg5rqo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">BBC<\/a>, Kotari underwent emergency brain surgery to treat a subdural hematoma after the bout, and he was pronounced dead less than one week later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Kotari was the challenger for the OPBF super featherweight title against Hata, and the fight ended in a split draw, which brought Kotari&#8217;s career record to 8-2-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Per BBC, WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman released a statement on Kotari&#8217;s passing, saying:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;Deeply sorry for this loss, a ring accident which makes all of us go back to continue research to find ways to make boxing safer and implement prevention programs. Our deepest sympathy and condolences for his family and the boxing community in Japan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Following the fatal injuries suffered by Kotari on Aug. 2, the Japan Boxing Commission announced that all future OPBF title fights would be shortened from 12 rounds to 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">In addition to Kotari, Hiromasa Urakawa suffered a head injury during that card as well, requiring a craniotomy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">BBC noted that no official update has been provided on Urakawa&#8217;s status since the procedure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The World Boxing Organization announced Friday that Shigetoshi Kotari died at the age of 28 from injuries suffered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-57361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57361","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=57361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}