RIP
Can’t cut and paste article, but sounds like it was pretty much an unregulated event where the promotion uses complete amateurs for the fights. The contestants are beginners who go through 2 months of 2 day a week training, of which the fighters have to attend at least half the training sessions. It is not clear from the article how much training this guy had.
Guy was 33.
Rip
Tim Hague died of a brain hemorrhage at 34, after a fight in Edmonton in 2017.
It doesn’t say how this guy died. Sounds as though he was beyond gassed, and asked to sit down and had to be carried out of the ring.
Alberta needs to step their shit up and have a governing body for mma in the province. It’s not like MMA is going away anytime soon. Sanctioning it on a municipal level is bonkers.
RIP to this family man who just wanted to fight for fun at a charity event. That should never end in death.
From the article…
Charles Proulx said he came into the arena partway through the match and saw that his new friend was in “bad condition.”
“I thought it was just because of bad cardio,” he said. "It’s hard to carry that much muscle.
“I thought he was gassing out normally like any big guy would but at the third round, it really went bad. He was not answering many of the punches.”
He said at one point the man was put in an armbar hold by his opponent but the fight continued.
“His energy level was dropping rapidly but he didn’t tap out,” Proulx recalled. "In the end, he asked to sit down and was carried out of the ring.
“Not too long after that, the commissioner told us there will be no other fights tonight.”
Proulx said he wants the fight investigated. He has questions about how the event was sanctioned and how the safety of fighters was maintained.
Also:
Most professional fights are supervised by a regulatory body. Supervising authorities set rules and oversee medical care for competitors. Alberta is the only province that puts combative sports commissions under municipal jurisdiction, an approach that critics have long said should be abandoned.
Under the existing model, communities that fall outside the jurisdiction of existing commissions can seek sanctioning from authorities such as the Central Combative Sports Commission, which was responsible for sanctioning Saturday’s fight.
Rajkovic said she met the fighter who died through their shared training sessions. She described him as a family man who was full of energy and always smiling.
She said most of the competitors were first-time fighters. She said she felt the training they were offered was insufficient preparation for people entering the cage.
“Everything seemed fine at the beginning for training,” she said. "We were just doing a charity event, so no one expects it to be super crazy.
“But then when you get to the event, things just started to not make sense.”
She said she had concerns about medical supervision and how the matches were regulated to ensure a “fair fight.”
She said the public and the man’s family deserve clarity on how the fight was sanctioned and what may have gone wrong.
“I knew what I was getting into when I signed up. I knew that it could be dangerous as well. But with that being said, there should never be a result like this.”
Sounds heart related. Not trauma related.
Fight cardio is different from other cardio.
You certainly can push yourself too hard.
Hence the term marathon.
RIP.
Wow…
MY Bad @hjr2
So TUF ?
“Dousuah died due to a ruptured kidney”
He won the fight. Very unfortunate.
Was this just a freak medical incident? MMA like any contact sport has risks. Anyone that participates should know this.
It’s almost shocking that this isn’t more common in the big leagues. I’d believe if they kept those kinds of injuries under wraps so the sport doesn’t look as deadly as it is.
People have died on the ice, football field, baseball field, hardcourt, motocross track, oval, dragstrip, road circuit… literally every sport except soccer… they only pretend to die on the pitch.
Seems this was not an event that included any regulatory monitoring or robust medical. It was an ammy event that took randoms and had them train twice a week for a number of weeks then try fighting. The guy wasn’t an experienced fighter.
Then after the fight, where he exhibited extreme gassing, they sat him in the back for almost an hour before he got to a hospital.
All around, it sounds mismanaged, even if he should have known the risks.
Really? I though that was the one game nobody ever died playing.
Before helmets people have died from getting hit in the head. These days not so much.
NYC has had some casualties:
He wasn’t a Canadian??? Canada was founded in 1867 and his people had NOTHING to do with it EVER.
Regardless this is tragic.
A few years prior leading up to this in MMA Hague was going to Russia and getting KTFO.
Then he fought Adam Braidwood in boxing who killed him
Braidwood is a mack truck former CFL Footballer who KO Ryan Jimmo in MMA aswell as KO all his boxing fights except 1.
An incredibly hard hitter and former WBU HW champion.
Tim’s tragic death was more so his own doing.
Going and getting smashed in Russia.
Avoiding breaks and evading athletic commissions that would have shelved him…
Cool clip here with Ryan THE REAL DEAL Ford.
A MMA and boxing badass from Edmonton.
His old man Al Ford is a Canadian boxing LEGEND.