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'Our sons died after fighting in white collar boxing matches - they need to be stopped'

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Two dads whose sons died after fighting in white collar boxing matches have called for them to be stopped. Richard Peck found his son Alastair, 44, dead two days after he entered the ring to raise money for Cancer Research UK in 2017, the Mirror reports.

Alastair took part to support the charity because niece Lauren Morgan, three, died of kidney cancer in 2008 and mum Pam Cripps was fighting breast cancer she would die of in 2019, aged 74.

Meanwhile, John Chapman’s son Dominic, 26, died in hospital in April 2022 after collapsing in the ring during a white collar fight at a nightclub.

Both dads have now spoken out after another man, international student Jubal Reji Kurian, died after a bout this March. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community They are calling for white collar boxing events - where fighters compete in three rounds of two minutes each - to be banned, with Richard slamming Cancer Research as 'disgraceful' for accepting money from them.

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