{"id":57515,"date":"2025-08-09T18:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T18:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/57515\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T18:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T18:56:11","slug":"boxing-star-shigetoski-kotari-dead-at-28-after-a-fight-injury-gone-too-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/57515\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing star Shigetoski Kotari, dead at 28 after a fight injury, \u2018Gone too soon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shigetoski Kotari, a Japanese boxer, died on Friday, August 8th, after needing emergency surgery following an injury he sustained during a title fight on week prior.<\/p>\n

The World Boxing Organization (WBO) announced Kotari\u2019s death in a statement, \u201cRest in peace, Shigetoski Kotari, who succumbed to injuries sustained during his August 2nd title fight,\u201d the statement begins.<\/p>\n

\u201cA warrior in the ring. A fighter in spirit. Gone too soon. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, team, and the entire Japanese boxing community,\u201d the post concludes.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old lost consciousness when he was fighting against Yamato Hata in a title fight in Tokyo, just six days before his death.<\/p>\n

At the time, he was \u201crushed to a hospital in Tokyo and diagnosed with acute subdural hematoma,\u201d the Japanese Boxing Commission (JBC) said in a press release posted to Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It continues saying Kotari underwent an emergency craniotomy and was \u201cunder observation\u201d following the procedure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shigetoski Kotari, a Japanese boxer, died on Friday, August 8th, after needing emergency surgery following an injury he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-57515","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\/57515","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=57515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}