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Tanaka passes away
By Joe Koizumi
Sadly and sorrowfully enough, former Japanese
115-pound champ Seiji Tanaka, 28, passed away at 8:43 pm today (Friday)
because of brain hemorrhage despite a reportedly successful operation
undergone last week.
http://www.fightnews.com/ for more info.
My opinion still stands, if find it very unfortunate and very disheartening.
Who knows if he sustained an undetected injury prior to his fight, or
whether he sustained injury sometime during his ten rounds of fighting.
In Japan, it is my understanding the they have
stricter rules and requirements for referees and medical training. If
someone knows of the differences I'd like to hear them.
One this is clear, he was a fully trained
boxer not someone on a whim dared to fight. He was living his dreams
of becoming the greatest in his sport as do we all dream. Now all we
can do is remember his dedication, try to understand what happened, and try
to make the sport safer.
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