Boxers Shigetoshi Kotari and Hiromasa Urakawa died following fights on the identical card in Tokyo final week.
Japanese boxing officers will maintain an emergency assembly on Tuesday as the game within the nation faces intense scrutiny following the deaths of two fighters in separate bouts on the identical occasion.
Tremendous featherweight Shigetoshi Kotari and light-weight Hiromasa Urakawa, each 28, fought on the identical card at Tokyo’s Korakuen Corridor on August 2 and died days later following mind surgical procedure.
The Japan Boxing Fee (JBC), health club homeowners and different boxing officers are beneath stress to behave and can maintain an emergency assembly on Tuesday.
They’re additionally anticipated to have talks about security subsequent month, native media stated.
“We’re conscious about our duty because the supervisor of the game,” Tsuyoshi Yasukochi, secretary-general of the JBC, informed reporters on Sunday.
“We’ll take no matter measures we will.”
Japanese media highlighted the dangers of fighters dehydrating to drop some weight quickly earlier than weigh-ins.
“Dehydration makes the mind extra vulnerable to bleeding,” the Asahi Shimbun newspaper stated.
That is without doubt one of the points the JBC plans to debate with trainers.
“They wish to hear from health club officers who work intently with the athletes about such gadgets as weight reduction strategies and pre-bout conditioning, which can be causally associated (to deaths),” the Nikkan Sports activities newspaper stated.
In a single quick measure, the fee has determined to scale back all Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation title bouts to 10 rounds from 12.
“The offensive energy of Japanese boxing immediately is super,” Yasukochi was quoted by the Asahi Shimbun as telling reporters.
“We’ve got increasingly boxers who’re capable of begin exchanges of fierce blows from the primary spherical. Possibly 12 rounds will be harmful.”
