{"id":73418,"date":"2025-08-13T13:09:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T04:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/13\/japan-boxing-commission-safety-measures-boxer-deaths"},"modified":"2025-08-13T13:09:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T04:09:04","slug":"japan-boxing-authorities-toughen-up-safety-measures-after-deaths-of-two-fighters-in-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73418","title":{"rendered":"Japan boxing authorities toughen up safety measures after deaths of two fighters in two days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japan Boxing Commission will crack down on rapid dehydration to \u2018make weight\u2019, which experts say makes the brain susceptible to bleeding<\/p>\n<p>Boxing authorities in Japan will introduce stricter safety measures after the sport was left in shock by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/aug\/10\/two-japanese-boxers-on-same-card-die-from-brain-injuries\">deaths<\/a> this month of two boxers competing in the same event.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from the Japan Boxing Commission (JBC) told reporters this week the changes would include pre-bout urine tests, tougher rules on rapid weight loss and improvements in ringside medical services.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/13\/japan-boxing-commission-safety-measures-boxer-deaths\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japan Boxing Commission will crack down on rapid dehydration to \u2018make weight\u2019, which experts say makes the brain susceptible to bleedingBoxing authorities in Japan will introduce stricter safety measures after the sport was left in shock by the dea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2248,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing","category-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73419,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73418\/revisions\/73419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}