Japanese boxing officers have introduced stricter guidelines on weight reduction and launched urine assessments after the loss of life of two boxers in the identical occasion earlier this month.
Hiromasa Urakawa and Shigetoshi Kotari died in separate bouts on August 2 in Tokyo.
Each boxers had surgical procedure for subdural haematoma – a situation the place blood collects between the cranium and mind.
The precise purpose for each fighters’ deaths is but to be confirmed however dehydration attributable to quick weight chopping is seen as a think about making the mind extra prone to bleeding, in keeping with the World Boxing Affiliation.
The Japan Boxing Fee (JBC) introduced all Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF) had already introduced title fights might be 10 rounds as a substitute of 12.
They’ve now voted to launched urine assessments to measure dehydration, plus a requirement for ambulances to be on website for all bouts and that hospitals are able to carry out emergency surgical procedure for head and different accidents.
“Officials have decided to take all possible measures to ensure that the deaths of these two boxers are not in vain,” mentioned Tsuyoshi Yasukochi, secretary common of the Japanese Boxing Fee.
Yasukochi additionally mentioned an investigation into the boxers’ deaths will happen later this month and steerage on prevention measures might be up to date.
A security assembly may even be held which can embody docs of Japan’s boxing commissions and novice boxing federations.
