{"id":62277,"date":"2025-08-11T20:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/62277\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T20:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T20:30:08","slug":"the-wbc-mourns-the-passing-of-hiromasa-urakawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/62277\/","title":{"rendered":"The WBC mourns the Passing of Hiromasa Urakawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WBC mourns the Passing of Hiromasa Urakawa<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Hiromasa Urakawa has passed away due to injuries sustained in his fight against Yoji Saito on August 2 in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>Urakawa was leading on all three scorecards when he was stopped in the eighth and final round at Korakuen Hall in the Japanese capital.<br \/>This follows the devastating news of the passing of Shigetoshi Kotari last Friday, who died from injuries sustained after his 12-round draw with Yamato Hata on the same fight card.<\/p>\n<p>Following Kotari\u2019s death, the Japanese Boxing Commission decided to change the duration of OPBF boxing matches from 12 to 10 rounds.<br \/>The WBC and its President, Mauricio Sulaim\u00e1n, mourn this irreparable loss and send deepest condolences to the family and friends of the warrior Hiromasa.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in Peace\u2026<\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_160745\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"160745\" style=\"\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WBC mourns the Passing of Hiromasa Urakawa Unfortunately, Hiromasa Urakawa has passed away due to injuries sustained&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-62277","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\/62277","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=62277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}