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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1109/
- Published: 2024-12-02T17:30:31.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-02T17:30:34.000Z
- Description: “It’s barbaric, and this is meant to be for charity.”
- Author: Good Oil Staff

> Kain Parsons’ wife was sitting at a ringside table watching as he fought in a charity boxing match, and could tell it was not going well.  
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> “All I remember is being focused on his face, with the look of shock. He never looked like he was in control with the fight. I just wanted it to stop,” Alana Parsons told an inquest into his death in Christchurch.  
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> She recalled someone in the crowd yelling at Parsons’ opponent to “go at him”.  
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> “It’s barbaric, and this is meant to be for charity.”  
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> Kain Parsons, a builder turned project manager, [died aged 37 in Christchurch Hospital](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/108410999/fight-for-christchurch-boxer-kain-parsons-dies-after-charity-match?ref=goodoil.news) three days after he was [knocked unconscious at the Fight for Christchurch charity boxing match](https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/combat-sports/108341166/fight-for-christchurch-boxer-critically-injured-in-charity-match?ref=goodoil.news) at Horncastle Arena in late 2018.  
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> A coronial inquest into his death is under way.  
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> Stuff

[Read More](https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360505778/charity-boxer-inquest-begins?ref=goodoil.news)