Jeanette Zacarias Zapata was fighting her sixth bout as a professional against Marie Pier Houle in Montreal last weekend. An 18-year-old female boxer has died, five days after being injured in a Montreal ring. Groupe Yvon Michel, the organiser of the boxing event, said on Thursday (Friday NZT) that Mexican Jeanette Zacarias Zapata died from injuries sustained in a bout with Marie-Pier Houle on Saturday night (Sunday NZT) at IGA stadium. The on-site medical team rushed to her side and she was immobilised on a stretcher before being rushed to a hospital by ambulance. Yvon Michel, president of Groupe Yvon Michel, said in a briefing on Sunday that Zapata was placed in a medically induced coma to sedate her and relax her body and brain, adding that the following two to five days would be “critical.”

Source: Stuff September 03, 2021 09:45 UTC