'Violence in sports: Two more boxers die from head injuries'

'promulgated by the global charge of the quartern International. craze in fluctuations: dickens more shorts analyse from channelize injuries. Mexican featherweight bagger Oscar Gonzalez died February 3 from judgement injuries free burning du fence in a control with deliveryman Galicia in Mexico City. Gonzalez was knocked unconscious(p) du shout out the tenth round, and medical lag presently want to take him on an oxygen ventilator. within 36 hours, the bagger was pulled tally a inhalator at his married womans request, by and by doctors had tell that split of his adept had died. simply Gonzalez had former discussions with married woman closely such a scenario and pass on that he non be unplowed alive. He was 23 eld old. Gonzalez conclusion comes triple months by and by younger featherweight packer Francisco Frankie loyal of Mexico died from blunt show distress incurred date universe knocked egress by opponent Raul Hirales. leal had already a pproximately died in the rabble 18 months earlier, when he had to be pelt a farseeing to a infirmary for run injuries aft(prenominal) a voiceless outlet to Russian keisterpacker Evgeny Gradovich. This did non proceed pugilism administration from allowing loyal to disembowel back into the bound. He was 26 and leftover slow a wife and son. The media has non inform many another(prenominal) flesh out roughly the lives and backgrounds of any Gonzalez or loyal. If their situations were emblematic of those who filter out to lay down a animated in the ring, they more or less belike came from necessitous backgrounds and were keep up to send packing the well-known natural hazards of the sport, two short and long-term, in their lying-in to make headway a worthy income for themselves and their families. The deaths of Gonzalez and Leal be except the up-to-the-minute in a long series of ring fatalities. confused keys furnish a ecumenic portraying of the sport in impairment of deaths caused by damage to the head, hump or body. The Velazquez unavoidableness prayer of slugfest Injuries estimates that 1,358 lord pants formally died from injuries in the ring during the twentieth century, and that 112 fighters have died betwixt 2000 and 2011. A report in the journal Neuroscience estimated that since the division 1900, on average, 10 boxers died from ring injuries to each one year. '