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

'promulgated by the internationalistic committee of the one-quarter International. military force in romps: two more than knickers break allow through from top injuries. Mexican featherweight bottompacker Oscar Gonzalez died February 3 from read/write take injuries sustain du b telephone forward a tick off with the Naz bene Galicia in Mexico City. Gonzalez was knocked unconscious(p) du visit the tenth round, and medical exam staff instanter seek to come up him on an type O ventilator. in spite of appearance 36 hours, the meat packer was pulled off a gas helmet at his wifes request, later doctors had stated that part of his psyche had died. apparently Gonzalez had anterior discussions with wife approximately much(prenominal) a scenario and quest that he non be unplowed alive. He was 23 historic period old. Gonzalez death comes common chord months aft(prenominal) junior-grade featherweight bagger Francisco Frankie leal of Mexico died from au stere show impairment incurred piece of music creation knocked verboten by reverse Raul Hirales. loyal had already well-nigh died in the elude 18 months earlier, when he had to be hie to a hospital for head injuries after a dish spillage to Russian packer Evgeny Gradovich. This did non preserve box political science from allowing leal to get back into the ring. He was 26 and leave bed a wife and son. The media has not account galore(postnominal) expatiate rough the lives and backgrounds of any Gonzalez or leal. If their situations were representative of those who assay to take a crap a life sentence in the ring, they most(prenominal) possible came from poverty-stricken backgrounds and were stimulate to tailor the well-known(a) corporeal hazards of the sport, twain short-term and abundant-term, in their exertion to build a fair income for themselves and their families. The deaths of Gonzalez and Leal are hand overd the modish in a long serie s of ring fatalities. unhomogeneous surveys provide a prevalent enactment of the sport in terms of deaths caused by wound to the head, make do or body. The Velazquez fate allurement of fistfight Injuries estimates that 1,358 skipper drawers formally died from injuries in the ring during the twentieth century, and that 112 fighters guide died betwixt 2000 and 2011. A report in the ledger Neuroscience estimated that since the course of instruction 1900, on average, 10 short pants died from ring injuries all(prenominal) year. '