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 brain surgery.
The Japan Boxing Fee (JBC), gymnasium homeowners and different boxing officers are below strain to behave and can maintain an emergency assembly on Tuesday.
They’re additionally anticipated to have talks about security subsequent month, native media mentioned.
“We’re conscious about our duty because the supervisor of the game,” Tsuyoshi Yasukochi, secretary-general of the JBC, advised reporters on Sunday.
“We are going to take no matter measures we are able to.”
Japanese media highlighted the dangers of fighters dehydrating to reduce weight quickly earlier than weigh-ins.
“Dehydration makes the mind extra prone to bleeding,” the Asahi Shimbun newspaper mentioned.
That is among the points the JBC plans to debate with trainers.
“They wish to hear from gymnasium officers who work carefully with the athletes about such objects as weight reduction strategies and pre-bout conditioning, which can be causally associated (to deaths),” the Nikkan Sports activities newspaper mentioned.
In a single rapid 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 at the moment is large,” Yasukochi was quoted by the Asahi Shimbun as telling reporters.
“We now have increasingly boxers who’re in a position to begin exchanges of fierce blows from the primary spherical. Perhaps 12 rounds could be harmful.”
