The Estate of Dennis Munson, Jr. has filed a lawsuit against the Roufus Sport and other entities as a result of his death during an amateur kickboxing event in Milwaukee. John Diedrich of The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported on the lawsuit and previously wrote about the errors that occurred on the night the amateur kickboxer died.
In addition to Roufus Sport, the estate sued the ring side doctors on hand among others that failed to stop the unregulated amateur fight. At the time, amateur kickboxing was not covered by the state of Wisconsin – only boxing and MMA. A law was passed after the unfortunate incident to include kickboxing as a regulated sport in the state.
Since kickboxing was unregulated at the time, the state did not investigate the event. An investigation by the Milwaukee Police Department and the district attorney’s office did not bring criminal charges.
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The lawsuit, filed this past week, was likely to occur due to the safety failures surrounding the event. It’s not clear that regulation would have saved Munson’s life, but there would be a greater likelihood that with safety rules in place, the fight would have been stopped earlier and/or the measures to ensure the medical attention needed might have prevented his death.
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