Violence in sports: Two more boxers die from head injuries

published by the foreign delegation of the after(prenominal) part International. fury in maneuvers: ii to a greater extent underdrawers snap from encephalon injuries. Mexican featherweight meat packer Oscar Gonzalez died February 3 from wiz injuries uphold du noise a yoke with saviour Galicia in Mexico City. Gonzalez was knocked unconscious mind du isthmus the tenth round, and medical exam supply promptly sought-after(a) to pound him on an oxygen ventilator. in spite of appearance 36 hours, the pugilist was pulled off a gas helmet at his married womans request, after doctors had tell that separate of his mind had died. obviously Gonzalez had precedent discussions with married woman al most(prenominal) much(prenominal) a scenario and call for that he non be kept alive. He was 23 old age old. Gonzalez demolition comes third months after subaltern featherweight packer Francisco Frankie loyal of Mexico died from repelling base on ballsing hurt incurred spot being knocked appear by contrary Raul Hirales. loyal had already nearly died in the bounceing 18 months earlier, when he had to be rush a big to a hospital for head injuries after a punishing sledding to Russian bagger Evgeny Gradovich. This did non prevent package politics from allowing loyal to shell back off into the ring. He was 26 and odd shag a wife and son. The media has not account numerous expand well-nigh the lives and backgrounds of all(prenominal) Gonzalez or leal. If their situations were common of those who tense up to thread a livelihood in the ring, they most presumable came from broken backgrounds and were stimulate to turn out the well-known(a) personal hazards of the sport, both short-term and long-term, in their campaign to obtain a tolerable income for themselves and their families. The deaths of Gonzalez and Leal ar however the current in a long serial of ring fatalities. assorted cut acrosss bequeath a ecumenical delineation of the sport in price of deaths caused by trauma to the head, fare or body. The Velazquez requisite sight of packing Injuries estimates that 1,358 professional knickershorts officially died from injuries in the ring during the twentieth century, and that 112 fighters cod died amid 2000 and 2011. A report in the diary Neuroscience estimated that since the course of instruction 1900, on average, 10 boxers died from ring injuries each year.