{"id":556,"date":"2024-10-29T02:12:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T02:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/?p=556"},"modified":"2024-10-29T02:12:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T02:12:24","slug":"fijian-boxer-in-coma-investigation-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"Fijian boxer in coma, investigation underway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Ubayd Haider<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by Tusi Tala, Staff Writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Boxing Commission of Fiji (BCF) has initiated an investigation into the events leading to Fijian boxer Ubayd Haider&#8217;s collapse outside the ring on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haider, previously known as Nathan Singh, lost to China&#8217;s Runqi Zhou by TKO in the ninth round of the IBO Asia Pacific Featherweight title match organized by South Pacific Boxing Promotions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The young athlete is currently in an induced coma at Lautoka Aspen Hospital, fighting for his life. His father, Gyan Singh, expressed hope that Haider will recover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BCF Chairman Adi Narayan stated that a team has begun looking into the circumstances that resulted in Haider&#8217;s hospitalization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local media reports indicated that epinephrine and needles were reportedly discovered in the warm-up area at King Charles Park in Nadi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Narayan confirmed that the Commission of Inquiry will include members from the Boxing Commission along with two independent representatives, according to fijivillage.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also noted that the IBO had sanctioned the title fights and mandated drug testing for all boxers after each match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Narayan asserted that the promoter was responsible for this process, and the results were to be communicated to the Fiji Boxing Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, promoter Freddy Chand informed local media that no drug tests were carried out, citing the significant costs involved in organizing a boxing promotion and suggesting that the BCF should assist promoters in funding such events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubayd Haider by Tusi Tala, Staff Writer The Boxing Commission of Fiji (BCF) has initiated an investigation into the events leading to Fijian boxer Ubayd Haider&#8217;s collapse outside the ring on Saturday. Haider, previously known as Nathan Singh, lost to China&#8217;s Runqi Zhou by TKO in the ninth round of the IBO Asia Pacific Featherweight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiji","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificislands.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}