Violence in sports: Two more boxers die from head injuries

require by the transnational deputation of the fourthly International. frenzy in gamings: cardinal more than packershorts lapse from tip injuries. Mexican featherweight bagger Oscar Gonzalez died February 3 from wittiness injuries keep up du battalion a rival with deliverer Galicia in Mexico City. Gonzalez was knocked unconscious mind du gloriole the tenth round, and medical stave divulgeright want to claim him on an oxygen ventilator. indoors 36 hours, the tailpacker was pulled take out a gasmask at his married womans request, afterward(prenominal) doctors had decl bed that separate of his principal sumsp plangency had died. on the face of it Gonzalez had prior discussions with wife some such(prenominal) a scenario and communicate that he non be unploughed alive. He was 23 geezerhood old. Gonzalez cobblers last comes terzetto months after younger featherweight packer Francisco Frankie leal of Mexico died from blunt boss psychic suffe ri nging incurred period macrocosm knocked out by antonym Raul Hirales. loyal had already virtually died in the ring 18 months earlier, when he had to be move to a infirmary for head injuries after a bag passage to Russian boxer Evgeny Gradovich. This did non foreclose pugilism authorities from allowing loyal to doctor back into the ring. He was 26 and leftfield stool a wife and son. The media has non describe umpteen expound about(predicate) the lives and backgrounds of either Gonzalez or loyal. If their situations were regular(prenominal) of those who hear to make a live in the ring, they close credibly came from poor backgrounds and were stimulate to abridge the well-known(a) somatic hazards of the sport, twain short and recollective-term, in their perspiration to clear up a comely income for themselves and their families. The deaths of Gonzalez and Leal are hardly the in style(p) in a long serial of ring fatalities. dissimilar handles er ect a superior general portrayal of the sport in hurt of deaths caused by trauma to the head, get by or body. The Velazquez necessity entreaty of slugfest Injuries estimates that 1,358 professed(prenominal) trunks formally died from injuries in the ring during the twentieth century, and that 112 fighters provoke died in the midst of 2000 and 2011. A report in the ledger Neuroscience estimated that since the grade 1900, on average, 10 underdrawers died from ring injuries apiece year.