{"id":1115718,"date":"2022-06-09T10:54:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T10:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/09\/boxer-dies-after-suffering-brain-injury-during-bout\/"},"modified":"2022-06-09T10:54:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T10:54:03","slug":"boxer-dies-after-suffering-brain-injury-during-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/09\/boxer-dies-after-suffering-brain-injury-during-bout\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxer dies after suffering brain injury during bout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image_2022-06-09_070552974-696x392.png\"   alt=\"Footage of the fight showed Simiso Buthelezi (left) throwing punches towards an empty corner\" title=\"Footage of the fight showed Simiso Buthelezi (left) throwing punches towards an empty corner\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Footage of the fight showed Simiso Buthelezi (left) throwing punches towards an empty corner<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>   <!--  --><\/p>\n<p>South African lightweight Simiso Buthelezi has died after suffering bleeding on the brain following a boxing bout at the weekend in Durban.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old faced compatriot Siphesihle Mntungwa for the WBF All Africa lightweight title on Sunday, but the 10-round contest was stopped by the referee after Buthelezi appeared to shadow box an invisible opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Footage of the fight showed Mntungwa falling through the ropes and then, after the fight was restarted, Buthelezi advancing towards an empty corner where he started to swing punches.<\/p>\n<p>Mntungwa was declared the winner and Buthelezi subsequently collapsed and was rushed to hospital.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/0_Screenshot-2022-06-05-at-193908-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>South African boxer Simiso Buthelezi worried fans when he started to punch the air mid-fight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He was placed in an induced coma after it was discovered he had bleeding on the brain.<\/p>\n<p>Boxing South Africa (BSA) confirmed Buthelezi had died on Tuesday evening in a statement jointly issued with the boxer\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p>They hailed Buthelezi as \u201ca great boxer who was exemplary both outside and inside the ring\u201d, and BSA also said it will undertake an independent medical review of incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the hospital Mr Buthelezi was given the best care possible but he however succumbed to the injury,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoxing South Africa will conduct an independent medical review of the injury and will then make public the results of that medical review.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Buthelezi family and BSA acknowledges warm words of condolences of the Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trainer Bheki Mngomezulu said Buthelezi had been in perfect health in the lead-up to the bout.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"pt\" dir=\"ltr\">Tr\u00e1gico: o boxeador Simiso Buthelezi est\u00e1 em coma induzido ap\u00f3s desorienta\u00e7\u00e3o em sua \u00faltima luta. Segundo &#8220;Sowetan Live&#8221;, o sul-africano sofreu hemorragia cerebral e seu estado, apesar de est\u00e1vel, \u00e9 cr\u00edtico. O hospital j\u00e1 trata a recupera\u00e7\u00e3o plena do atleta como um &#8220;milagre&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BR07YHFvOY\">pic.twitter.com\/BR07YHFvOY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Igor Melotto (@MMAmelotto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMAmelotto\/status\/1534369180484509696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"x-PCc9vRBFg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Transport Fares, Food Prices Push Inflation Rate To 27.6% In May 2022 - Badwam Mpensenpensemu\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x-PCc9vRBFg?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Footage of the fight showed Simiso Buthelezi (left) throwing punches towards an empty corner South African lightweight Simiso Buthelezi has died after suffering bleeding on the brain following a boxing bout at the weekend in Durban. The 24-year-old faced compatriot Siphesihle Mntungwa for the WBF All Africa lightweight title on Sunday, but the 10-round contest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1115720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3954,575,234,862,2092,713],"class_list":["post-1115718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bout","tag-boxer","tag-brain","tag-dies","tag-injury","tag-suffering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}