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Tragic: A promising 17-yr-old amateur boxer dropped dead in a boxing ring after his match




17-yr-old Ed Bilbey from Derbyshire in the UK tragically dropped dead on Friday night in the boxing ring he had just fought in.

Paramedics rushed into the ring in an effort to revive the young boy but nothing was successful and he died in the ring shortly after 10pm on Friday.

Derbyshire Police said a postmortem will take place on Monday.
A police spokesman said: “At this stage there don’t appear to be any suspicious circumstances surrounding this death.”

One cause of death being mooted is “sudden death syndrome” but this hasn’t been confirmed by authorities.

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