By Gabriel F. Cordero
Sad to report that female welterweight Jeanette Zacarías Zapata has died from injuries suffered in her knockout loss against Marie Pier Houlento on last Saturday’s fight card in Montreal. She fainted in the ring after the bout was stopped and spent several days in a Montreal hospital in an induced coma. She never regained consciousness. Jeanette hailed from the town of Villa de Puertecitos in Aguascalientes, Mexico, and was just 18 years old.
Promoter Yvon Michel issued the following statement:
It is with great sadness and torment that we learned, from a representative of her family, that Jeanette Zacarias Zapata passed away this afternoon at 3:45 pm. The entire team at Groupe Yvon Michel team is extremely distressed by this painful announcement. We would like to offer our most sincere condolences to her family, loved ones, friends and especially her husband Jovanni Martinez who was at her bedside until her last moments.
Jovanni is devastated and extremely upset. Under the circumstances he does not wish to comment, therefore we ask that you respect his decision and allow the family to have their privacy.
In this painful period, you will understand that Groupe Yvon Michel does not intend to comment further.
Thank you for your understanding.
18 years old. Rest easy Jeanette.
Prayers to her family and loved ones…
Honestly, never been a fan of women’s combat sports (no slight to those that do it), just the less physical ones like tennis, gymnastics, volleyball, and softball. You don’t see this often in women’s boxing, thank goodness, due to women not hitting as hard as men, they also have more fragile skull and jaw structure but with slightly smaller brains. Maybe the lack of upper body strength power is a good thing in this regard, to prevent more tragedies like this. Condolences to the family.
Sorry to hear that my condolences to the family very sad news!!
This all sounds very fishy to me. Women don’t normally have that kind of explosive punching power to kill another boxer. I suspect performance enhancing drugs and loaded gloves plus an inept refree that failed to stop the fight as soon as the mouth piece went flying. I think her boyfriend needs to call Morgan And Morgan For The People and get a large sum from the promoter an medical malpractice at the hospital that did not give her surgery and said she was going to be OK and then she died. Sounds like a case for Morgan and Morgan indeed. Jacoby and Meyers, Trollman and Glazer if there still around. Any injury and malpractice lawyer on Earth would take this case to the bank guaranteed.
Agapito, a woman also has less resistance to a punch than a man does. It all balances out. As long as it’s female vs female. Not saying cheating didn’t happen but to think that a woman couldn’t ko another woman is wrong.
There are plenty of sleazy lawyers willing to sue for any unfortunate event. Dosen’t bring the person back, and we all end up paying for large settlements with higher insurance premiums.
Marie Houlento sucker-punched her and then celebrated while watching her go into spasms and collapse. Fecking disgusting, she should be banned for life.
This is hella sad. Condolences to her family and team. Every time a fighter enters a ring, they risk death, and that’s no joke. As far as her opponent celebrating afterwords, I can only assume she was caught up in the moment and had no idea of the danger Zacarias Zapata was in. That’s not the result anyone wants.
Geez. Just a Bub at 18. Rest easy little’n x
Whetto You known darn well most women don’t have that kind of explosive power to kill another boxer. It’s way more likely that plaster and performance enhancing drugs made it happen plus the ref letting it go on. The sleazy people are the promoters and refs that let this kind of stuff happen for a buck. Also the hospital opted not to have surgery and said she was OK and then she died. That smells like medical malpractice. Morgan and Morgan protect victims rights and so does injury lawyer. I can guarantee that if something similar happened to you or a loved one you would get a lawyer right away and I can guarantee the promotion and hospital have insurance companies with thousands of lawyers. So they may call them sleazy but that’s who they trust the most to defend them. So yes any injury law firm will like Morgan and Morgan, Jacoby and Meyers or Trollman and Glazer will take these people to the bank because their has been negligence and irregularities here that need to be investigated because a young 18 year old female has died and could have been prevented. I guarantee you would feel different if it was your 18 daughter. Tell me how you would feel and what you do if this happened to one of your 18 year old sons or daughters.