Japanese boxers Shigetoshi Kotari and Hiromasa Urakawa have died from brain injuries suffered during separate fights at an ...

Shigetoshi Kotari and Hiromasa Urakawa, both 28, died after sustaining brain injuries during separate bouts on the same card ...

Boxing star Shigetoshi Kotari died on Friday, Aug. 8, just six days after he was injured in a title fight in Tokyo, Japan, ...

Two Japanese boxers have died after sustaining brain injuries from different matches at the same event in Tokyo on Aug. 2.

Two young Japanese boxers tragically died from brain injuries sustained while competing on the same fight card at Korakuen ...

Japanese boxer Shigetoshi Kotari has died. He was 28. “Rest in peace, Shigetoshi Kotari ,” the World Boxing Organization ...

Japanese boxer Shigetoshi Kotari’s final fight took place on August 2, 2025, at Tokyo’s Korakuen Hall. He faced Yamato Hata ...

Shigetoshi Kotari, a Japanese boxer, was a super featherweight fighter who fought 12 times during his professional career and ...

Boxing World Mourns The Passing of Promising 28-Year-Old Japanese Boxer Shigetoshi Kotari originally appeared on Athlon ...

The sport of boxing suffered another brutal blow this weekend when two boxers that were on the same card passed away just ...

Unless it involves Naoya Inoue, Japanese boxing rarely makes international headlines. Saturday was one of those rare ...

Japanese boxer Shigetoshi Kotari has died at 28, six days after sustaining a brain injury in a drawn OPBF title bout against Yamato Hata, prompting calls for safety reforms.