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BoxingTwo fighters die after getting into the ring in Tokyo
An event organized in the Japanese metropolis has turned into drama. Two boxers, victims of concussion, died after their respective fight.
Shigetoshi Kotari had snatched a draw on August 2.
IMAGO/AFLOSPORTTwo boxers died from the brain concussion under two separate fights during the same event in Tokyo, we learned from an official source on Sunday.
The super featherweight Shigetoshi Kotari and the light Hiromasa Urakawa, both 28 -year -old, were hired at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo on August 2 in the evening. They had to be transported urgently to the hospital where they underwent brain surgery, in vain.
Kotari, who had torn a draw in twelve rounds against another Japanese, lost consciousness shortly after the end of the fight and died six days later, on August 8, from a “subdural hematoma”, said his club on his website on Saturday.
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Urakawa was arrested by the referee in the eighth and last round. He “tragically succumbed to injuries suffered during his fight,” said the WBO (World Boxing Organization) in a message on Instagram on Sunday. According to Japanese media, his death intervened on Saturday evening, a week after his fight.
According to Tsuyoshi Yasukochi, secretary general of the Japanese boxing commission quoted by the media, it was probably “the first time in Japan that two boxers suffered brain surgery as a result of injuries during the same event”.
