List of deaths due to injuries sustained in boxing explained

The following is a list of deaths due to injuries sustained in boxing. In February 1995, it was estimated that "approximately 500 boxers have died in the ring or as a result of boxing since the Marquess of Queensberry Rules were introduced in 1884."^[1] 22 boxers died in 1953 alone.^[1]

The list is incomplete; many other boxers not listed here have died as a consequence of injuries sustained in a contest.

data-sort-type=date	Date of fight !	Name of victim	Nationality	Opponent	Opponent's nationality	Details
14 Dec 1894	Andy Bowen		Kid Lavigne		27-year-old Bowen hit his head on the wooden canvas when Lavigne knocked him down in the 18th round. Bowen never regained consciousness and died the following morning.^[2]
6 Dec 1897	Walter Croot		Jimmy Barry		Croot never regained consciousness and died the following day from a brain injury. Charged with manslaughter, Barry was exonerated when it was determined that Croot had died from a fractured skull sustained when his head hit the unpadded floor, made of wood.^[3]
5 Feb 1923	Andy Thomas		Johnny Clinton		Knocked out and did not regain consciousness even though his heart was still beating and died the next morning.^[4]
12 Jun 1923	Jean-Baptiste Rampignon		Andre Gleizes		Slipped into a coma after a 15-round points loss in a bout for the French flyweight championship and died the following day.^[5]
11 Jan 1924	Frankie Jerome		Bud Taylor		Died two days following a twelfth round stoppage loss.^[6]
19 Apr 1926	Clever Sencio		Bud Taylor		Died just two hours after a decision loss. This was the second ring tragedy that involved Bud Taylor.^[7]
13 Dec 1926	Daniel Marshall		Joshua Lloyd-Doyle		Died one day following his first professional fight due to injuries sustained.
1 Jun 1928	Tosh Powell		Billy Housego		20-year-old Welsh boxer Powell collapsed during the third round of his bout with London fighter Housego. Powell was taken to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary, where he died of a brain hemorrhage on 2 June.^[8]
24 Jan 1930	Mickey Darmon		Eddie Koppy		Fractured skull and cerebral hemorrhage.^[9] ^[10]
20 Aug 1930	Johnny Anderson		"Red" Keuhl		^[11]
25 Aug 1930	Frankie Campbell		Max Baer		Campbell was knocked unconscious in the ring and died hours later in the hospital. Doctors discovered that his brain had been knocked loose from the connective tissue inside his head.
7 Jun 1932	Chet Edwards		Joe Torkleson		Won the match, later found unconscious in dressing room and brought to hospital where he died the next day.^[12]
10 Feb 1933	Ernie Schaaf		Primo Carnera		Suffered a knockout loss in the 13th round and immediately fell unconscious. He would go into a coma, and was rushed to the hospital to undergo surgery where he ultimately died four days later.^[13]
8 May 1933	Jack Holland		Tony Marullo		24-year-old Holland, a college football star and artist's model, died of a cerebral hemorrhage after losing in six rounds to Marullo in New Orleans. He collapsed while leaving the ring and died in a hospital the following morning.^[14] ^[15]
17 Mar 1936	Tony Scarpati		Lou Ambers		Died in hospital without regaining consciousness after his knockout by Lou Ambers in the seventh round of their fight. When Scarpati fell, his head struck the ring floor. Although surgeons operated to relieve pressure resulting from the concussion, he failed to regain consciousness.^[16]
30 Jan 1937	Tony Marino		Carlos Quintana		26-year-old Marino collapsed at the end of an eight-round bout with Quintana in Brooklyn, New York City. The ringside doctor diagnosed a brain concussion. Marino never regained consciousness, dying two days later at Wyckoff Heights Hospital in Brooklyn. New York state officials found Marino had been knocked down five times in the contest, and passed a rule that any boxer downed three times in round constitutes an automatic end to the contest for "outclassed," which is referred by the WBA as an Automatic Knockout.
16 Jul 1940	Peter Asero		Pete Muscarnera		Seemingly on his way to victory by knocking out Muscarnera to the count of nine in the first round, Asero suffered a knockout in the fourth round. He never revived. Heart attack was given as the cause of death by the Athletic Commission.	Boxing Records website	New York City newspapers 16, 18 July 1940	Boxer Drops Dead in Queensboro Ring and Asero Autopsy Shows Boxer Had No Injury	Personal research by Ricky DeSoiza
2 Jul 1941	Roy "Jack" Gillespie		Jack Chase		Died from a brain injury; Chase taken into technical custody.^[17]
15 May 1942	John M. Marquez		Alfred David Globe		Knocked out and never regained consciousness.^[18]
3 Mar 1946	Dixon Walker		Gus Gerson		Cerebral hemorrhage.^[19]
24 Jun 1947	Jimmy Doyle		Sugar Ray Robinson		Died 17 hours after being knocked out.
15 Aug 1947	Glenn Newton Smith		Sam Baroudi		Knocked out in the 9th round and never regained consciousness.
2 Feb 1948	Sam Baroudi		Ezzard Charles		Killed by a punch from a future heavyweight champion.^[20]
28 Feb 1948	Leroy DeCatur		Freddie Herrera		Died after his first professional match.^[21]
28 Mar 1948	Gerardo Hernandez		Manuel Parrado		Died in the ring following a cerebral hemorrhage.^[22]
21 Apr 1948	Jackie Darthard		Bert Lytell		Collapsed after six rounds of fighting and died after being taken to a hospital. Death ultimately ruled to be the result of a brain hemorrhage caused by an undiagnosed injury from a match five months earlier.^[23]
29 Sep 1948	Felix Amado Gomez		Bobby McQuillar		"McQuillar hit him with a crushing right hand that sent Kid Dinamita to the canvas. The bell saved him. But he was unable to come out for the ninth round. He was carried out of the ring, and five hours later, on a hospital operating table, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Kid Dinamita was 22 years old."^[24]
19 Sep 1949	Archie Kemp		Jack Hassen		Kemp was carried from the ring on a stretcher and did not regain consciousness, dying of a cerebral haemorrhage. Referee Joe Wallis had refused to stop the fight.^[25]
22 Feb 1950	Lavern Roach		Georgie Small		Lavern sustained a fatal head injury during the match and died the next day due to a subdural hemorrhage.^[26]
20 Dec 1950	Sonny Boy West		Percy Bassett		West suffered from inter-cerebral hemorrhage resulting from a cerebral concussion and died the following day.^[27]
29 Aug 1951	Georgie Flores		Roger Donoghue		Knocked out and died a few days later. Donoghue gave match winnings to Flores' family.^[28]
12 Dec 1954	Ed Sanders		Willie James		Complained of headaches early in the day. Lost consciousness in the 11th round. Died after a long surgery to relieve bleeding in the brain.^[29]
8 Nov 1958	Jose Blanco		Sugar Ramos		Died a day after a knockout loss in the eighth and final round against future world champion Sugar Ramos.^[30]
26 Oct 1959	Walt Ingram		José Becerra		^[31]
9 Apr 1960	Charlie Mohr		Stu Bartell		Died a week after being knocked out in NCAA tournament at Madison, Wisconsin.^[32] His death has been credited with resulting in the NCAA's termination of the sport.^[33]
6 Jun 1960	Tommy Pacheco		Benny Gordon		Remained unconscious after fight. Brought to hospital where a brain operation was performed but succumbed to injuries.^[34]
26 Jun 1960	Rafael Rodriguez		Gaby Sanchez		Floored after hook to the liver.^[35]
15 May 1961	Harry Campbell		Al Medrano		23-year-old Campbell, a 1960 Olympic boxer, collapsed after the final bell of the tenth round of his bout with Medrano. He never regained consciousness, despite brain surgery.^[36]
24 Mar 1962	Benny Paret		Emile Griffith		See Benny Paret vs. Emile Griffith III; Paret died of brain injuries 10 days later.^[37]
21 Sep 1962	Alejandro Lavorante		John Riggins		Lavorante would spend 19 months in a coma before passing away on April 1, 1964.^[38]
21 Mar 1963	Davey Moore		Sugar Ramos		Moore collapsed in the dressing room after the fight, and died 75 hours later. This was the second ring tragedy that Sugar Ramos was involved in.
10 May 1965	Sonny Banks		Leotis Martin			Banks is known for being the first fighter to ever score a knockdown against Muhammad Ali. He died 3 days after this fight at age 24.^[39]
11 Mar 1969	Ulrich Regis		Joe Bugner		Regis died four days after the fight following surgery to remove a blood clot.
30 Dec 1969	Bernard Agbakhume Daudu		Carlos San Jose		Daudu died of injuries sustained in this fight.^[40]
2 Feb 1972	Mick Pinkney		Jim Moore		Pinkney was knocked out in the fifth round and died after choking on his own blood.
19 Jul 1978	Angelo Jacopucci		Alan Minter		Jacopucci did not collapse in the ring; he and Minter met for a meal after the fight. Jacopucci then fell into a coma and died.^[41] As a result of this, European title fights were limited to 12 rounds.
23 Nov 1979	Willie Classen		Wilford Scypion		Died following the fight.
9 Jan 1980	Charles Newell		Marlon Starling		Died after being knocked out in the 7th round.
20 Jun 1980	Cleveland Denny		Gaétan Hart		Died 16 days after being knocked out.
19 Sep 1980	Johnny Owen		Lupe Pintor		Owen was knocked out and died six weeks later without regaining consciousness.
7 May 1982	Andy Balaba		Hi-Sup Shin		Died of injuries sustained in the fight.^[42] ^[43]
14 Jun 1982	Young Ali		Barry McGuigan		Collapsed in the ring, fell into a coma, and died from a blood clot two days later.
13 Nov 1982	Kim Duk-koo		Ray Mancini		Kim died four days after the fight, as a result of a subdural hematoma, which filled his skull with 100 cubic centimetres of blood. As a result of this, world championship fights were limited to 12 rounds and increased testing required in Nevada.
1 Sep 1983	Francisco Bejines		Alberto Dávila		Died of brain injuries, despite surgery to remove a blood clot and relieve pressure on his brain.
29 May 1985	Shawn Thomas		Chris Calvin		Died of head injuries.
2 Nov 1985	Jacob Morake		Brian Mitchell		Died of head injuries.
29 Nov 1985	Gerardo Derbez		Jorge Vaca		Knocked out and fell into a coma; died from brain injuries.
14 Mar 1986	Steve Watt		Rocky Kelly		Died of brain injuries.
27 Feb 1987	Jean-Claude Vinci		Lionel Jean		Vinci lost the fight on points, and died 30 minutes later.
14 Jun 1988	Brian Baronet		Kenny Vice		Fell into a coma after being knocked out and died 3 days later.
13 Aug 1988	Daniel Thetele		Aaron Williams		Collapsed without regaining consciousness and died.
4 Mar 1989	David Thio		Terrence "Alli" Halley		Knocked out and died 10 days later.
17 Aug 1990	Pat Stone		Gary Wills		Died of brain injuries the day after the fight.
27 May 1991	Patrick Mdiniso		Mongezi Mbadu		Died after being knocked unconscious.^[44]
17 Nov 1991	Clive Sikwebu		Ndoda Mayende		Died nine days after being knocked out.
1 Dec 1991	Minoru Katsumata		Takashi Murata		Died after being knocked out in the 10th round. It was his first professional fight.
20 Dec 1991	David Ellis		Abdenago Jofré		Ellis collapsed in the final round and died 9 days after.^[45]
26 Apr 1994	Bradley Stone		Richie Wenton		Died from a blood clot.
22 Jul 1994	Robert Wangila		David Gonzalez		Died after an operation to remove a blood clot from his brain.
6 May 1995	Jimmy Garcia		Gabriel Ruelas		Held on the undercard of his brother Rafael's contest against Oscar De La Hoya for the WBO and IBF Lightweight Titles, Gabriel won an 11th-round TKO against Garcia, who died 13 days later due to a blood clot on the brain.
13 Oct 1995	James Murray		Drew Docherty		Murray collapsed in the final round and died on 15 October 1995 due to brain injuries.
9 Dec 1995	Eugene Barutag		Randy Andagan		On December 9, 1995, a young fighter from General Santos City named Eugene Barutag, was scheduled for an eight-round match against veteran Randy Andagan of Biñan, Laguna. Barutag was winning the match in the first four rounds and almost knocked out Andagan, but the latter got his second wind and beat the younger boxer, who at the end of the bout, collapsed in his corner. At that time, there were no standby paramedics in case of emergency. Using the service vehicle of Vintage Sports, Barutag was rushed to the Jose Reyes Memorial Hospital and was declared dead on arrival.^[46]
13 Dec 1997	Felix Bwalya		Paul Burke		Was knocked down three times in the final rounds; died 9 days later. While in a coma, he was found to have had malaria in his bloodstream. The autopsy report stated the cause of death was cardiorespiratory failure, severe blunt force trauma to the head, and bronchopneumonia in his right lung.
12 Sep 1999	Randie Carver		Kabary Salem		Carver was headbutted repeatedly during the early rounds, with the contest not being stopped contrary to rules in boxing that call for a termination of contest for clash of heads. He lost consciousness and was rushed to the hospital. Carver died two days later from blunt head trauma.^[47]
20 Oct 2000	Bobby Tomasello		Steve Dotse		Tomasello collapsed in his dressing room after a 10-round draw. He fell into a coma from which he never awoke, dying five days later.^[48]
30 Mar 2001			Khongtawat Sorkiti		Alfaridzi fell into coma after Sorkiti knocked him out on the eighth round, and died three days later of bleeding in the left side of his brain.^[49]
26 Jun 2001	Beethaeven Scottland		George Khalid Jones		Jones hurt Scottland in the tenth, and Scottland dropped to the canvas and was counted out having not risen to his feet.[2] Scottland had to be helped from the ring and fell into a coma, dying from his injuries on July 1, 2001.
23 Jun 2002	Pedro Alcázar		Fernando Montiel		Alcazar was declared healthy by ringside doctors, with no visible signs of any trauma. He collapsed in his hotel room the following day, and died in hospital.^[50]
18 Jul 2003	Brad Rone		Billy Zumbrun		He turned around to walk to his corner following the 1st round when he collapsed, dying instantly. An autopsy later revealed Rone had died of a heart attack, which ringside physicians had not inspected him before the contest as required.^[51]
28 December 2003	John Eman Juarez		Rocky Fuentes		After Rocky Fuentes knocked John Eman Juarez out, John Eman Juarez was immediately carried from the ring on a stretcher unconscious, Juarez would regain consciousness at Cebu Doctors' Hospital but would die due to Subdural Hematoma on January 1, 2004, 1:00AM.^[52] Since then, Fuentes was never the same, he would constantly have nightmares and would not live up to his handlers' expectations.^[53]
2 Apr 2005	Becky Zerlentes		Heather Schmitz		On April 2, 2005, Zerlentes was participating in the Colorado State Boxing Senior Female Championships (an amateur boxing contest) at the Denver Coliseum in Denver, Colorado. She was knocked out in the third round by her opponent, Heather Schmitz, fell unconscious, and never regained consciousness. Zerlentes is the first woman known to have died of injuries sustained during a sanctioned boxing match in the United States. According to the Denver County coroner, the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head.^[54] ^[55]
1 Jul 2005	Martín Sánchez		Rustam Nugaev		After the fight, a commission inspector noticed Sánchez walking strangely. He was rushed to a local hospital where he underwent emergency surgery for a subdural hematoma. He died the following morning. This was the first of two deaths in three months that led to boxing authorities in Nevada to begin a series of rule changes for boxer safety.^[56]
17 Sep 2005	Leavander Johnson		Jesús Chávez		Johnson collapsed in the locker room following the fight and was taken to hospital where he was placed in a medically induced coma following surgery to correct a subdural hematoma. He died on 22 September 2005.^[57] The Sánchez and Johnson fatalities led to Nevada authorities creating new regulations on hydration (certain sports drinks in sealed packets), weight cutting, glove weight, and physicians. Rules now require physicians to inspect boxers at weigh-ins, before the contest, and immediately after the contest, and require a minimum of three physicians in the ring. CT scans are now required after fights.^[58] In 2016, new brain health testing rules became mandatory, also based on this incident.^[59]
18 Mar 2006	Kevin Payne		Ryan Maraldo		Payne underwent surgery after suffering a brain injury during the fight. He died the following day.^[60]
31 Mar 2007	Lito Sisnorio		Chatchai Sasakul		Sisnorio sustained brain injuries during the fight and died the next day in hospital. The fight was deemed controversial, as Sisnorio's role in the fight was not officially sanctioned by the Philippine Games and Amusement Board.^[61]
25 Dec 2007	Choi Yo-sam		Heri Amol		Choi collapsed while still in the ring after the bout, and was rushed to the Soonchunhyang University Hospital immediately after the fight in order to undergo emergency brain surgery. He died on 3 January 2008 after being removed from his ventilator.^[62]
15 Oct 2008	Daniel Aguillón		Alejandro Sanabria		Aguillón was punched in the jaw in the last minute of the 12th round of the super featherweight bout for the Central American title by his opponent Sanabria. He fell unconscious on the floor and was taken to a hospital, but never recovered.^[63]
30 Apr 2009	Benjamín Flores		Al Seeger		Flores suffered a brain injury during the fight. He died from his injuries on 5 May 2009.^[64]
18 Jul 2009	Marco Antonio Nazareth		Omar Chávez		Nazareth collapsed in the ring and had to be taken to the local hospital, where he underwent a three-hour surgery to treat a cerebral hemorrhage. He died four days later.^[65]
20 Nov 2009	Francisco Rodriguez		Teon Kennedy		Rodríguez immediately collapsed, losing consciousness while waiting for an official decision. He was rushed to a hospital for emergency brain surgery and died 2 days later.^[66]
17 Jul 2010	Bae Ki-suk		Jung Jin-ki		23-year-old Bae underwent five hours of brain surgery following the fight. After the operation, his body temperature, blood pressure and pulse returned to almost normal, but he remained unconscious and died four days after the bout.
5 Dec 2011	Roman Simakov		Sergey Kovalev		27-year-old Simakov died of brain injuries after collapsing in the ring.^[67]
3 February 2012	Karlo Maquinto		Mark Joseph Costa		Boxer Karlo Maquinto passed away Friday, five days after falling into a coma because of a blood clot in his brain after a bout in Caloocan City. He was 21. Maquinto battled back from two knockdowns to earn a majority draw against Mark Joseph Costa in their four-round flyweight bout.The death of the Iloilo-born boxer has sparked calls for an investigation, particularly from House Games and Amusements chair Rep. Amado Bagatsing and boxing promoter Jun Sarreal, who stressed that the medical history of boxers should always be looked into before fights.^[68]
31 Mar 2012	Muhammad Afrizal		Irvan Barita Marbun		30-year-old Afrizal began vomiting an hour after the bout and fell unconscious with a hemorrhage. He died four days after brain surgery to remove a blood clot.^[69]
28 Mar 2013	Michael Norgrove		Tom Bowen		32-year-old Norgrove collapsed in Round 5, and died on 6 April without regaining consciousness.
19 Oct 2013	Francisco Leal		Raul Hirales		26-year-old Leal went into a coma after suffering a KO loss to Raul Hirales. He was taken from the ring on a stretcher and brought to a hospital in Los Cabos. He was then transferred to Laz Paz, and later brought to a hospital in San Diego, where he died. He had a record of 20-8-3 with 13 KOs.^[70]
20 Dec 2013	Tesshin Okada		Masafumi Kamiyama		21-year-old Okada suffered a fourth-round TKO in professional debut. He collapsed after the fight, and was rushed to hospital to undergo surgery for acute subdural hematoma. He died 17 days later on 6 January 2014^[71]
10 Oct 2014	Phindile Mwelase		Liz Butler		Mwelase was defeated by knockout in a boxing match in Pretoria, after which she fell into a coma; she died after remaining in the coma for two weeks. It is one of the first recognised deaths in women's professional boxing.^[72] ^[73]
14 Mar 2015	Braydon Smith		John Vincent Moralde		23-year-old Smith lost a 10-round unanimous points decision to Moralde in Toowoomba, Australia. He lost consciousness 90 minutes later at Toowoomba Hospital, and died after spending two days in a medically induced coma at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane.^[74]
14 Nov 2015	David Acevedo		Nelson Altamirano		23-year-old Acevedo died a week after lapsing into a coma, following an 8th-round TKO loss against Nelson Altamirano in Managua, Nicaragua.
29 Sep 2016	Mike Towell		Dale Evans		25-year-old Towell was knocked down in the 1st round and again in the 5th prior to the stoppage, he was carried from the ring on a stretcher and taken to hospital.^[75] He died late the following day of severe cerebral hemorrhage. Towell had taken a break from fighting due to severe migraines several weeks before his fatal fight.
27 May 2017	David Whittom		Gary Kopas		Whittom suffered from a brain hemorrhage and was rushed to Saint John Regional Hospital the next morning to have part of his skull removed. He spent the next 10 months in a medically induced coma before passing away on 16 March 2018, aged 39.^[76]
16 Jun 2017	Tim Hague		Adam Braidwood		34-year-old Hague was knocked down five times in the first two rounds, and died two days later after being taken off of life support.^[77]
24 Feb 2018	Scott Westgarth		Dec Spelman		31-year-old Scott Westgarth defeated Dec Spelman. Westgarth was knocked down just before the end of the fight and collapsed in the locker room. Westgarth was rushed to a nearby hospital and died.^[78]
5 Nov 2018	Christian Daghio		Don Parueang	Thailand	49-year-old Christian Daghio was knocked to the canvas twice in the final round of his WBC Asia title fight against Don Parueang on 26 October. After his second knockdown, Daghio was immediately treated by medical staff inside the ring. He was subsequently taken to hospital in Bangkok, where he spent two days in a coma before passing away. Daghio, who was 49, was in violation of upper age limits enforced by most authorities (age 40), and this death, along with one involving a 13-year old boxer (see below) a week later, led to Thai authorities reviewing legislation on minimum, but not maximum, age of boxers.^[79]
12 Nov 2018	Anucha Thasako		Phetmongkol Por Peenapat	Thailand	13-year-old Anucha Thasako died from a brain haemorrhage two days after a boxing charity match against a 14-year-old boy. They were both were not wearing any protective headgear. Thasako was boxing since the age of eight-year-old and had done 170 fights to earn money for his family. After his death the Thai parliament reviewed legislation to ban children under 12 years old from boxing matches.^[80]
19 Jul 2019	Maxim Dadashev		Subriel Matías		The match was stopped after 11 rounds by Dadashev's trainer James "Buddy" McGirt, himself a former championship boxer. 28-year-old Dadashev collapsed while being transported to the hospital where he underwent emergency brain surgery. He was placed into a coma, before dying three days after the fight due to cerebral edema caused by sustained hits to the head.^[81] ^[82]
25 Jul 2019	Hugo Alfredo Santillan		Eduardo Javier Abreu		According to ringside reports, the 23-year-old Santillan's nose began bleeding in the fourth round of the 20 July contest. Santillan passed out as the judges were announcing the draw. After being admitted to the hospital, he had swelling of the brain and successive kidney failure. As the swelling worsened, it affected the functioning of the rest of his organs and he never regained consciousness. Santillan underwent surgery for a clot in his brain, and twice went into cardiorespiratory failure before he died of cardiac arrest. Santillan was boxing while under suspension. Forty days prior, on June 15, he lost to Artem Harutyunyan by unanimous decision in Hamburg, Germany. After a post-fight medical examination, the Association of German Professional Boxers (German: Bund Deutscher Berufsboxer) suspended Santillan 45 days, which was to have expired on 30 July. Argentine authorities did not notice the BDB suspension on Santillan's licence, as it was not a knockout loss. Trainer Orlando Farias knew about the BDB-assessed suspension, and did not coach him in this fight.^[83] ^[84]
21 Sep 2019	Boris Stanchov		Ardit Murja		It was initially reported that 21-year-old Isus Velichkov collapsed during a match with Ardit Murja after suffering a cardiac arrest. It was later revealed that Stanchov was using the boxing license of his cousin Velichkov. According to Bad Left Hook, Stanchov had been fighting under his name for the past year, and was also stepping into the ring using Velichkov's medicals, The contest took place in Albania, where boxing regulations regarding licencing (such as the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act in the United States) are not enforced. Stanchov's use of Velichkov's medical record is legally a violation of boxing regulations. The tragedy struck in the fifth round of his scrap in Albania after being caught with a jab. He had appeared wobbly on his feet in the moments before hitting the canvas. The fight was immediately waved off, and the referee and medical teams rushed into the ring.^[85]
12 Oct 2019	Patrick Day		Charles Conwell		27-year-old Day was knocked down three times in his fight with Conwell. The final knockdown that stopped the fight was particularly brutal, as Day's head violently bounced on the canvas. Seeing the way Day fell, the referee immediately stopped the fight. Day was rushed to a hospital, where he began to suffer seizures, and shortly after fell into a coma. Doctors then performed emergency brain surgery. Four days later on 16 October 2019, Day died from what was described as traumatic brain injury.^[86] Following his death, boxing promoter Eddie Hearn said the sport needed to become safer.^[87]
16 Apr 2021	Rashed Al-Swaisat		Anton Vinogradov		18-year-old Alswaisat was knocked out in a preliminary-round light-heavyweight bout with Vinogradov at the AIBA Youth World Championships in Kielce, Poland. He was treated in the ring and taken to a hospital in Kielce, where he died ten days later on 26 April 2021.^[88]
28 August 2021	Jeanette Zacarías Zapata		Marie Pier Houle		18-year-old Zapata was knocked down after a series of uppercuts at the end of the fourth round against Houle at the GVM Gala International in Montreal on 28 August 2021. Zapata seemed to suffer a seizure after the fight was stopped, and was taken to the hospital, where she would die on 3 September 2021.^[89] ^[90]
16 October 2021	Moisés Fuentes		David Cuellar Contreras		Fuentes suffered a blood clot in his brain. He never fought again after that and complications from the injury resulted in his death at the age of 37 on November 24, 2022.^[91]
7 January 2022	Arest Saakyan		Igor Semernin		26-year-old Russian-Armenian boxer Arest Saakyan was knocked down in the last 8th round of bout at the Kings of Ring in Togliatti on 26 December 2021. He died 10 days later.^[92]
27 Feb 2022	Hero Tito		James Mokoginta		Tito fell into a coma after suffering a one punch knockout in round 7 from an uppercut against fellow Indonesian James Mokoginta at the Holywings Club in Jakarta, Tito would die at the 3rd of March due to injuries suffered.^[93]
5 June 2022	Simiso Buthelezi		Siphesihle Mntungwa		24-year-old South African boxer Simiso Buthelezi began punching aimlessly in a different direction after Siphesihle Mntungwa was knocked into the ropes by Buthelezi. The referee stopped the fight, and Buthelezi was transported to hospital where a brain bleed was discovered. Buthelezi was placed into a medically induced coma from which he never woke up, as he died two days later.
6 May 2023	Kenneth Egano		Jason Facularin		Kenneth Egano died on May 10, 2023, after a four-day coma stemming from a post-fight brain hemorrhage, while waiting for his fight results, the 22-year old General Santos City-native, Egano collapsed on his fight against Jason Facularin at "Blow by Blow", a boxing event backed by Senator and eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao, unfortunately as Egano was declared the winner, by the time, Egano has already collapsed, later was pronounced sustaining a comatose hours later, eventually led to his death.^[94]
17 Dec 2023	Timofey Shadrin		Unknown		14-year-old boxer died after a series of punches to body at the final of Pervouralsk youth championship.^[95]
26 Dec 2023	Kazuki Anaguchi		Seiya Tsutsumi		This match was on the undercard of the Naoya Inoue (WBC, WBO) vs Marlon Tapales (WBA, IBF) super bantamweight (122 pound / 55 kg) title unification match at Ariake Arena on December 26, 2023. In the undercard, Kazuki Anaguchi battled with compatriot Seiya Tsutsumi where Anaguchi suffered four knockdowns, with the last in the final ten seconds of the final (tenth) round. Tsutsumi won via unanimous decision, 94–92, 94–92, 95–91. After the bout, Anaguchi's legs can be seen twitching and was rushed to the hospital, remaining unconscious for more than a month, however, in February 2024, the Japan Boxing Commission declared Anaguchi dead due to subdural hematoma.^[96] ^[97]
5 Apr 2024	Ardi Ndembo		Nestor Santana		Promising Congolese prospect Ardi Ndembo fought Cuban Nestor Santana on 5 April 2024 in a Team Combat League contest between the Las Vegas Hustle (Ndembo) and Miami Stealth (Santana) held inside the Infiniti of Coral Gables, Florida showroom, which was conducted under Team Combat League regulations.^[98] Sixteen boxers per team, consisting of two boxers per weight class -- 126 men, 126 women, 135 men, 147 men, 147 women, 160 men, 175 men, 201 men, participate in a 24-round contest with each boxer participating in one-round matches, with boxers doing no more than two of the 24 rounds with one round in each weight and sex class per eight-round period. During the eighth round, which is the final round of the first period and the round for these two boxers, video showed Santana was throwing hooks to the back of Ndembo's head (a rabbit punch in violation of boxing rules) at 30 seconds into the round, which the referee did not notice until slightly later when she warned Santana. After Ndembo slipped around 45 seconds, Santana was taunting. At 56 seconds, Santana knocked Ndembo down and according to Marca, Ndembo remained unconscious on the canvas for ten minutes. Under Team Combat League rules, the knockout ends only the eighth round, not the contest, and the 10-point must scoring system for each round grants an automatic score for knockout. The contest continued with the ninth round featuring the remaining 30 boxers contesting the remaining 15 rounds, as the two boxers' second one-round contest (which was scheduled for the third period) was scratched and ruled a stoppage win for Santana for points purposes, which Miami won, 229–220. Ndembo was moved to Jackson Memorial Hospital, where he was in a coma before his death on 26 April 2024.^[99]
12 May 2024	Sherif Lawal		Malam Varela		Pro debut for 29-year-old Lawal in contest against Varela at the J+Hackney Leisure Centre in Harrow in London, England. In the fourth round, Lawal went down from a right to the head. Referee Lee Every stopped the contest. Lawal was taken by ambulance to hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The main event, Amarildo Bakaj vs Mawuli Folivi, was postponed to 15 September.^[100]

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