2 dead in MMA
Submitted by fightlinker on August 16, 2007 - 7:30am
Up until today I was under the impression that there was only one death attributed to an MMA fight:
There has only been one death in the sport of MMA, in an event in Kiev, Ukraine in 1998, where American Douglas Dedge fought against doctor's orders and despite a pre-existing medical condition that was frequently causing him to black out in training (US promoters were unwilling to let him compete with his condition).
However, this little footnote tucked into Sherdog's article on Hong Man Choi made me do a double take:
Korea witnessed its first MMA related death at a Gimme 5 event (now known as Neofight) in 2005. The cause of death was due to brain hemorrhaging after the fight, but many blamed the death on the promotion's inadequate medical standards.
I dug around and found this post regarding the fight, so it definitely seems that a guy did die in Seoul doing what could be described as MMA. So I guess the question is: who else are we missing? How many other people have died in MMA fights? And have these been glossed over because the fights don't fit the mainstream's idea of what mixed martial arts is?
August 16, 2007 - 5:05pm
#2
if he dies he dies
October 2, 2008 - 9:40am
#3
[...] specifically because of it’s safety record - you know, the whole ‘only two or three deaths since the sport began’ thing - that legislators have been forced to accept the facts [...]
May 6, 2009 - 11:43am
#4
[...] At the same time people there trying to stop MMA, a sport responsible (amazingly enough) for only three deaths in over 15 [...]
May 6, 2009 - 10:52pm
#5
[...] they would be able to come to such a conclusion when there have been three deaths in 15 years (See here and here) not quite the same as the 15 in boxing in the same [...]
August 31, 2009 - 11:07am
#6
[...] good number of those being kids. Thus far since MMA emerged as a sport we’ve only had two (or three, depending on if you count sketchy fights in Korea) deaths. And hey, do I even have to mention the [...]
June 29, 2010 - 10:48am
#7
[...] is sanctioned death #2, which brings the total MMA fight death tally to 4. This doesn’t count people who have died training. A mixed martial [...]
dam jewish koreans.. they cheap out on everything, many koreans perished when a mall was built to sub-standards collapsed..