(AUG 30) On Saturday night at the
IGA Stadium, in Montreal, Canada, 18-year old boxer Jeanette
Zacarias Zapata, 143 1/4, was critically injured in the
ring when she was stopped the in the latter round of round four
by her opponent Marie Pier Haude, 146.5. The two were scheduled
in the welterweight bout for six rounds.
After being plummeted in the
corner by a barrage of punches the ref flagged to stop the
fight. Zapata was initially standing up and then went down
to the canvass.
An update on Zapata since being placed in a coma, promoter of
the event, Yvon Michel stated that her condition has remained
stable but that the docts say the next 48 hours are critical to
her surviving.
jJust a little over three months ago, Zapata had suffered a KO,
when she fought Cynthia Lozano, in the sixth round of a six
round bout, and previous to that she lost by an RTD in the third
round against Alma Ibarra where that fight took place in 2018,
so she was coming out of being inactivity when she fought Lozano
in 2021.
Promoter Michael added, "Zapata had undergone neurological exams
to get permission to participate in the Montreal fight, because
she was knocked out in a match last May in Mexico."
In one news source they wrote the
following: "during the fight, Houle struck Zapata with a
left uppercut and then delivered a final right hook, jolting her
opponent's mouth guard. Unable to recover after the bell rang,
Zapata went into convulsions."
Jeanette Zacarias Zapata,
was knocked unconscious during a match on Aug. 28, 2021 against
Quebec boxer Marie-Pier Houle and was taken away on a stretcher.
Zapata died in hospital on Sept. 2 — five days after the fight.
In a report made public on Tuesday, Quebec coroner Jacques
Ramsay said the 18-year-old died of brain trauma caused by
repeated blows to the head.
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