Boxing Star Shigetoshi Kotari Useless at 28

Japanese boxer Shigetoshi Kotari has tragically handed away following a severe damage he sustained in a title battle 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 within the ring” and a “fighter in spirit.”

The super-featherweight underwent emergency mind surgical procedure to deal with a subdural hematoma following the battle, per a translated press release 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 will 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 submit reads … “Lastly the time has come. What I have been accumulating, Wager all of it and go win. I’ll positively be a champion.”

President of the World Boxing Council (WBC) Mauricio Sulaiman honored Kotari as effectively, saying he’s “deeply sorry for this loss” and inspired these to “analysis to search out methods to make boxing safer and implement prevention programmes.”

He was 28.