Nevada students die after charity boxing match

“It’s like an underground fighting club.”

A student from the University of Nevada Las Vegas has died after participating in a charity boxing match.

Nathan Valencia, 20, collapsed minutes after leaving the ring during ‘Kappa Sigma Fight Night’ at the Sahara Event Center on November 19.

After competing in the final match of the collection, Valencia was driven to the hospital, where doctors discovered internal bleeding and brain damage.

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He died four days later, just days before his 21st birthday.

Family and friends have criticized the amateur event, claiming there was no professional judge or medical care.

“Our preliminary investigation reveals that mistakes have been made and safety precautions have been overlooked,” family lawyers told KLAS in a statement.

“We will complete a full investigation to determine how UNLV and the Kappa Sigma Fraternity could allow and promote an event like this to take place.”

“High school students should not be placed in a situation where they are pitted against each other for combat. ‘Kappa Sigma Fight Night’ is an event that has been held annually and was well known by both UNLV and the national Kappa Sigma Fraternity.”

“We will not leave the stone unturned to determine how a 20-year-old ended up in a school-sanctioned amateur fight that cost him his life.”

Valencia’s longtime friend Joe Castro told the magazine that the event “was like an underground fighting club.”

“I saw no doctor, no doctors, nothing,” he said.

Castro claimed that after his friend collapsed, a fight broke out. “All the members there about doing their own thing while Nathan was just in the ring like lying there,” he said. “It was ridiculous.”

Valencia girlfriend Lacey Foster told The Sun she saw him “just trying to get away to breathe” during the match.

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“When I first got in there, I just had a really weird feeling,” she said.

Foster said that after he was taken away, “they pretty much said they would try to do their best, but they did not know if he would make it.”

In an email to students and staff, UNLV President Richard Whitfield said the university “committed itself to all available resources to review the incident and determine how off-campus events like these can be as safe as possible.”

“It is with a heavy heart and deep sorrow that I share that a member of the UNLV family is no longer among us,” he wrote to KLAS.

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“Nathan Tyler Valencia has passed away after a tragic incident a week ago. Nathan was a junior at UNLV and had attended the Kappa Sigma Fraternity’s ‘Fight Night’, an off-campus event aimed at raising money.”

“Shortly after his fight, Nathan collapsed and was taken to a hospital. We are shocked and shattered as we mourn the loss of one of our own.”

A GoFundMe, which says Valencia was “an active member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon at UNLV”, which “had so much love for its chapter”, has already raised $ 50k.

Valencia’s bodies have since been donated to eight different recipients.

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