{"id":376477,"date":"2025-08-27T02:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T02:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/376477\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T02:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T02:17:10","slug":"japanese-boxers-die-after-fights-prompting-safety-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/376477\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Boxers Die After Fights, Prompting Safety Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;\">None of this is new information, of course, but the more prevalent it becomes, the more pressing the issue becomes. Japan, especially, has had a rough time of it of late, with the deaths on August 2 coming less than two years after another Japanese boxer, Kazuki Anaguchi, died following a December 2023 bout in Tokyo. Earlier this year, too, Ginjiro Shigeoka, a 25-year-old minimumweight, collapsed following a fight in Osaka and had to undergo brain surgery as a result. He remains in a coma three months later, though his condition is no longer life-threatening, thankfully.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"None of this is new information, of course, but the more prevalent it becomes, the more pressing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,131447,4496,4495,131446,131443,131444,131445,131442,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-376477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-and-medicine","10":"tag-boxing-news","11":"tag-boxingscene","12":"tag-fatalities-in-boxing","13":"tag-ginjiro-shigeooka","14":"tag-hiromasa-urakawa","15":"tag-japanese-boxing","16":"tag-shigetoshi-kotari","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115098330602451052","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}