{"id":2173,"date":"2025-08-11T14:36:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/japan-boxing-to-hold-emergency-meeting-following-fighters-deaths\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T14:36:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:36:28","slug":"japan-boxing-to-hold-emergency-meeting-following-fighters-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/japan-boxing-to-hold-emergency-meeting-following-fighters-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan boxing to hold emergency meeting following fighters\u2019 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Boxers Shigetoshi Kotari and Hiromasa Urakawa died following fights on the same card in Tokyo last week.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>Japanese boxing officials will hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday as the sport in the country faces intense scrutiny following the deaths of two fighters in separate bouts at the same event.<\/p>\n<p>Super featherweight Shigetoshi Kotari and lightweight Hiromasa Urakawa, both 28, fought on the same card at Tokyo\u2019s Korakuen Hall on August 2 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/sports\/2025\/8\/10\/two-boxers-die-from-brain-injuries-in-separate-bouts-in-japan\">died days later following brain surgery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Japan Boxing Commission (JBC), gym owners and other boxing officials are under pressure to act and will hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>They are also expected to have talks about safety next month, local media said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are acutely aware of our responsibility as the manager of the sport,\u201d Tsuyoshi Yasukochi, secretary-general of the JBC, told reporters on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will take whatever measures we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Japanese media highlighted the risks of fighters dehydrating to lose weight rapidly before weigh-ins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDehydration makes the brain more susceptible to bleeding,\u201d the Asahi Shimbun newspaper said.<\/p>\n<p>That is one of the issues the JBC plans to discuss with trainers.<\/p>\n<p>\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 deaths),\u201d the Nikkan Sports newspaper said.<\/p>\n<p>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>\u201cThe offensive power of Japanese boxing today is tremendous,\u201d Yasukochi was quoted by the Asahi Shimbun as telling reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\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<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boxers Shigetoshi Kotari and Hiromasa Urakawa died following fights on the same card in Tokyo last week. Japanese boxing officials will hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday as the sport in the country faces intense scrutiny following the deaths of two fighters in separate bouts at the same event. Super featherweight Shigetoshi Kotari and lightweight &#8230; <a title=\"Japan boxing to hold emergency meeting following fighters\u2019 deaths\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/japan-boxing-to-hold-emergency-meeting-following-fighters-deaths\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Japan boxing to hold emergency meeting following fighters\u2019 deaths\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}