{"id":106328,"date":"2025-09-01T05:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T05:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/106328\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T05:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T05:53:15","slug":"boxing-deaths-prompt-calls-for-tighter-regulation-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/106328\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing deaths prompt calls for tighter regulation in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/sports\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Recovery periods, risky dehydration techniques and overly intense sparring are all under scrutiny<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/9\/6.jpeg\" alt=\"20250825 boxing image photo\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Following the deaths of two fighters in early August, Japanese boxing authorities could be facing the most serious crisis in their sport&#8217;s history. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)<\/p>\n<p>DAISUKE SUGIURA<\/p>\n<p>August 31, 2025 12:13 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">NEW\u00a0YORK &#8212; Japanese boxing is facing what many regard as its most serious crisis in decades. The tragic tipping point came on Aug. 2 at Tokyo&#8217;s famed Korakuen Hall when two fighters who had competed in the co-main and main events collapsed with subdural hematomas sustained in the ring and subsequently died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sports Recovery periods, risky dehydration techniques and overly intense sparring are all under scrutiny Following the deaths of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,9095,51760,386,51761,306,101,51762,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-106328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-calls","10":"tag-deaths","11":"tag-japan","12":"tag-prompt","13":"tag-regulation","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tighter","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}