2025 has been a depressing year for the passing of great fighters

Indeed. But one small correction: Avelar died in 2024. Instead of him, Id have Alejandra Oliveras, who was a multiple champion and did die in 2025.

She was anti-trans but I was still saddened by her death, I saw her fight many times and she was a great little fighter.

 

That's a sad list indeed.

 

Devastating list by standards of greatness (Foreman/McCallum) and one of my personal faves (Haugen).

Regarding Japan, is that just an anomaly or do they have some sort of extreme weight shedding protocols?

 

2025 is an awful year overall,either way.

 

Avelar died the 27th of april but i agree that La Locomotora should've been mentioned alongside him.

 

I remember a few years ago, it was Indonesia.

In fact Indonesia had an abysmal record when ir came down both to boxing deaths and airline crashes. The WBC was not sanctioning boxing fights there, and, although similarly the FAA and Europe were not allowing Indonesian aircraft into their airspace, the only airline with aircraft large enough to cover such routes, Garuda, still suffers from that because neither the US or the European Union have reopened their skies to Indonesian aircraft. For starters I remember the Adam Air, Indonesia Air Asia and Sririwaja Air crashes, which along with the Lion Air one (in which it was Boeing's not the airline's, fault) severely damaged the Indonesian airline industry's reputation.

Both things took place around the same time!!

 

Good post,Flo. We can add Joe Bugner to the list. RIP all fighters who had died this year.

 

Joe Bugner overlooked again - that sums up his career sadly!