Coroner issues new recommendations after investigation into boxer's death finds falsified medical records

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· Posted: Mar 21, 2025 10:22 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

A Quebec coroner has revised his archetypal study into the decease of a Mexican boxer aft a Radio-Canada probe recovered that her aesculapian records had been falsified oregon were inaccurate. 

Jeanette Guadalupe Zacarias Zapata, 18, died respective days aft she was knocked retired during a bout successful Montreal connected Aug. 28, 2021. 

Jacques Ramsay, the coroner who initially published a study into Zapata's death, told Radio-Canada's Enquete that helium had nary thought the aesculapian records that showed she was acceptable to measurement into the ringing that nighttime were falsified. 

"The accusation I had was that this study [the falsified report] was normal," helium said. "There were nary anomalies. My mistake."

Ramsay's caller report, published connected Friday, acknowledges the findings of the Enquete investigation and makes 10 caller recommendations.

The study recommends that the Quebec liquor and gaming authority, which sanctions prize fights, check if a combatant has suffered a knockout successful their erstwhile fight, arsenic Zapata had.

If they person suffered a knock-out recently, the Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux (RACJ) should verify video and reports of the erstwhile knock-out to amended recognize the quality of the boxer's injuries.

Pre-fight radiology and objective exams should besides beryllium completed successful Quebec, Ramsay recommends. 

The Radio-Canada probe recovered that Zapata should ne'er person been allowed to measurement into the ringing the nighttime she was fatally injured. Three and a fractional months earlier she died, she had suffered a concussion successful a knockout nonaccomplishment successful her location country.

The RACJ claimed it recovered thing retired of the mean erstwhile it stamped that radiology study conscionable days earlier the fight. 

But the Radio-Canada probe recovered anomalies with the report, and, aft travelling to Mexico, determined that it had been forged.