{"id":60940,"date":"2025-08-11T07:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T07:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60940\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T07:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T07:47:08","slug":"japan-boxing-officials-to-hold-emergency-meeting-following-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60940\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan boxing officials to hold emergency meeting following deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">TOKYO &#8211; Japanese boxing officials will hold an emergency meeting on Aug 12 as the sport in the country faces intense scrutiny, following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/sport\/combat-sports\/two-japanese-boxers-die-after-brain-injuries-at-same-tokyo-event?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">deaths of two fighters<\/p>\n<p><\/a> in separate bouts at the same event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Super featherweight Shigetoshi Kotari and lightweight Hiromasa Urakawa, both 28, fought on the same card at Tokyo\u2019s Korakuen Hall on Aug 2 and died days later following brain surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The Japan Boxing Commission (JBC), gym owners and other boxing officials are under pressure to act and will hold an emergency meeting on Aug 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">They are also expected to have talks about safety in September, local media said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cWe are acutely aware of our responsibility as the manager of the sport,\u201d Mr Tsuyoshi Yasukochi, secretary-general of the JBC, told reporters on Aug 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cWe will take whatever measures we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Japanese media highlighted the risks of fighters dehydrating to lose weight rapidly before weigh-ins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cDehydration makes the brain more susceptible to bleeding,\u201d the Asahi Shimbun newspaper said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">That is one of the issues the JBC plans to discuss with trainers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cThey want to hear from gym officials who work closely with the athletes about such items as weight loss methods and pre-bout conditioning, which may be causally related (to fatalities),\u201d the Nikkan Sports newspaper said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In one immediate measure, the commission has decided to reduce all Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation title bouts to 10 rounds from 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cThe offensive power of Japanese boxing today is tremendous,\u201d Mr Yasukochi was quoted by Asahi Shimbun as telling reporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cWe have more and more boxers who are able to start exchanges of fierce blows from the first round. Maybe 12 rounds can be dangerous.\u201d AFP <\/p>\n<p>JapanSports and recreationBoxing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO &#8211; Japanese boxing officials will hold an emergency meeting on Aug 12 as the sport in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-60940","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\/60940","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=60940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}