A 21 year old Japanese boxer, Tesshin Okada has died 17 days after he suffered a fourth round knockout in his professional debut. The Japan Boxing Commission announced that Okada died in a Tokyo ...

Two Japanese fighters on same card die from brain injuries Two Japanese boxers have died days after suffering brain injuries in separate fights on the same card, boxing associations and media ...

A Japanese flyweight boxer who lost consciousness in the dressing room after a March 24 bout died Tuesday. Yoshihiro Irei was 22. Irei underwent emergency surgery for brain damage, said Akio ...

A Japanese court ruled Thursday that an 88-year-old former boxer was not guilty in a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder, reversing an earlier wrongful conviction after decades on death row.

An 88-year-old Japanese former pro boxer has won the fight of his life, but at a terrible cost. He's cleared his name after spending nearly a half-century on death row for a murder he didn't commit.