The Earthquake in Venezuela is making major news worldwide in live time and a professional boxer has been effected.
Boxing like all professional sport exists in an environment where ad hoc events can effect either the industry or particpants and organizers.
Force majeure events are executable in all private contracts in an all jurisdictions due to unforseen circumstances.
Sometimes referred to but not limited to terms such as ‘Acts of God’ or ‘Natural Disasters’.
Other events like public health emergencies and so on like the Covid-19 Pandemic or outbreaks of hostilities and wars between nations also fall into this category in international law.
The same with usually but not limited to ‘essential infrastructure failures’.
Like a collapse of a power or communications grid online that would for instance bring down communications of telecom, airports or tech businesses (and so on) that require electricity and internet and so on to operate.
Force majeure clauses are enforcable in all international law.
Unfortunately that has come about today in Venezuela.
That line exists in all contracts usually in some shape or form and a major Earthquake today in Venezuela will be putting any boxing events in parts of Venezuela on hold.
At least for a while.
Furthermore, one Venezuela professional boxer so far has actually lost his life and died in the Earthquake it has been confirmed.
Many have died so far and the numbers are increasing but it has been confirmed now that Venezuelan professional boxer Yorky Medina has died.
He was 28-years-old and had a record of 17-4-0.
He competed in the lightweight division.
He had fought twice this year and dropped two unanimous decision points losses in 2026.
His nickname was ‘El Nino Guerrero’.
Boxing has seen a few deaths this year to say the least. More than a few. Many.
Recently a police officer who was a boxer was also brutally murdered.
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