Boxing Star Shigetoshi Kotari
Useless at 28 Following Mind Bleed
Revealed
Japanese boxer Shigetoshi Kotari has tragically handed away following a critical damage he sustained in a title struggle simply 1 week in the past.
The World Boxing Group (WBO) introduced on X Kotari died on Friday after his August 2 match in Tokyo towards Yamato Hata … and remembered him as a “warrior in the ring” and a “fighter in spirit.”
The super-featherweight underwent emergency mind surgical procedure to deal with a subdural hematoma following the struggle, per a translated press launch shared by the Japan Boxing Fee. A subdural hematoma is a sort of bleeding that happens between the mind and cranium, per Cleveland Clinic, and may be deadly if not attended to.
Kotari was vying for the OPBF Tremendous Featherweight title on August 2 and was thrilled to be competing towards Hata … and even posted a snap of the pair posing side-by-side a day earlier than the match.
The translated put up reads … “Finally the time has come. What I’ve been accumulating, Bet it all and go win. I will definitely be a champion.”
President of the World Boxing Council (WBC) Mauricio Sulaiman honored Kotari as nicely, saying he’s “deeply sorry for this loss” and inspired these to “research to find ways to make boxing safer and implement prevention programmes.”
He was 28.
RIP
