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Comatose boxer dies in Tokyo hospital following ring disaster

Tuesday, 20 May 2008

Professional boxer Mikio Takeuchi, a Chinese national, lost his fight to survive, dying Sunday night in a Tokyo hospital where he had been in a coma since suffering a brain hemorrhage in a May 3 fight, hospital officials said. He was 22.

Takeuchi, of Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, fell unconscious after being defeated in a match on May 3, and underwent surgery.

Takeuchi is the grandson of a Japanese national left behind in China at the end of World War II. He arrived in Japan with his family when he was 6. He started boxing while studying part-time at high school and turned pro in April 2005.

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