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Kevin Randleman is the latest fighter set to be inducted in the UFC Hall of Fame. During the UFC on ESPN 8 broadcast, a video package played revealing the upcoming induction of Kevin Randleman. The late heavyweight and light heavyweight bruiser will be…
Kevin Randleman is the latest fighter set to be inducted in the UFC Hall of Fame. During the UFC on ESPN 8 broadcast, a video package played revealing the upcoming induction of Kevin Randleman. The late heavyweight and light heavyweight bruiser will be going into the Pioneer Wing. The UFC Hall of Fame 2020 is […]
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These 10 UFC fighter deaths shocked the sport of MMA:
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Almost 25 years since the birth of the UFC, it’s with a heavy heart that we look back in disbelief at just how many fighters who once set foot in the Octagon, so vibrant and full of life, are sadly no longer with us.
In this article, we’ll recall the harrowing circumstances surrounding the death of 10 stars who had fought on the sport’s biggest stage, and whose passing shocked the MMA community to its very core.
Former UFC heavyweight fighter Tim Hague’s premature passing at the age of 34 last year due to injuries sustained in the boxing ring was a painful reminder of just how dangerous combat sports can be.
Hague had compiled a 1-4 run during in the UFC between 2009-2011 and then moved on to successfully compete for other promotions like WSOF and King of the Cage in the years that followed.
Between 2015 and 2016 his form started to take a dramatic dip though, losing three fights in a row by way of knockout, then a 33-second TKO loss just a few months later in July.
That would prove to be Hague’s last ever MMA fight, but unfortunately, he didn’t hang up his gloves, turning to professional boxing instead.
He’d fight to a unanimous decision loss in the boxing ring that September, then suffered a first-round TKO loss in December. Undeterred, he then took an MMA-boxing hybrid fight billed as ‘superboxing’ in April of 2017 and was TKO’d in 40 seconds.
After that punishing succession of concussive defeats over a relatively short period, Hague should not have been licensed by the Edmonton Combative Sporting Commission to undertake another boxing bout just three months later against Adam Braidwood, an independent report would later conclude.
However, Hague was allowed to fight and quickly found himself outmatched by Braidwood, leading to him being floored no less than three times in the opening round.
The fight wasn’t stopped and so Hague continued to endure a one-sided beating in the second round that saw him dropped once more before finally being brutally KO’d.
Hague regained consciousness afterward and made his way out of the ring helped by his corner, but backstage he began complaining of a severe headache and was vomiting, leading to him being rushed to the hospital.
Two days later Hague was declared dead due to a traumatic brain injury. Combat sports in Edmonton were subsequently banned for a year as a result of his tragic death.
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As the sport of MMA has grown over the years, so has the level of drug testing aimed at catching those fighters who are attempting to cheat the system and gain an unfair advantage over their opponent. However, regardless of the harsh punishments that organizations like the UFC now employ, there are always fighters who […]
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As the sport of MMA has grown over the years, so has the level of drug testing aimed at catching those fighters who are attempting to cheat the system and gain an unfair advantage over their opponent.
However, regardless of the harsh punishments that organizations like the UFC now employ, there are always fighters who continue to look for new ways to break the rules, leading to even more elaborate drug testing procedures being implemented to ensure they don’t get away with it.
In this article we’ll look at the craziest stories that have emerged from drug testing in the sport over the years, from the unbelievable lengths some fighters have gone to in order to avoid detection, through to the draconian and downright creepy measures drug testing officials have taken to try to catch them.
If nothing else, the late Kevin Randleman gets an A for effort when it comes to his wacky attempt to cheat the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC)’s urine test when PRIDE hosted a rare event outside of Japan in Las Vegas back in 2006.
“[Randleman] basically used a fake penis, put on a pair of bike shorts, had a cup and came in to take pre-fight urine,” Former NSAC director Keith Kizer recalled in an interview with Reuters.
“He lifted up the leg of shorts, took out the fake penis and did the test. We checked on temperature, sent it to a lab, and we found it was fake urine.”
NSAC banned Randleman from fighting for a year as a result of the incident, but his actions also ended up impacting on every other fighter’s privacy from that point onwards.
”We said ‘look, now you guys have to pull down your shorts so that whoever is administering the test can see everything,” Kizer said of their efforts to stop something like this happening again in the future.
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The fan claims that former UFC champion Kevin Randleman reached out to him minutes before he was set to hang himself Randleman, who sadly passed away in 2016, was credited with preventing a fan from ending his own life in a personal account uploaded to Reddit’s R/MMA: I’ve pondered for a long time on how […]
The fan claims that former UFC champion Kevin Randleman reached out to him minutes before he was set to hang himself Randleman, who sadly passed away in 2016, was credited with preventing a fan from ending his own life in a personal account uploaded to Reddit’s R/MMA: I’ve pondered for a long time on how […]
As 2016 rapidly draws to a conclusion and we take stock of the year gone by, one trend that casts a long shadow is the alarming number of past and present MMA fighters who’ve died over the past 12 months. Unfortunately the sport of mixed martial arts is still too young for this to simply
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As 2016 rapidly draws to a conclusion and we take stock of the year gone by, one trend that casts a long shadow is the alarming number of past and present MMA fighters who’ve died over the past 12 months.
Unfortunately the sport of mixed martial arts is still too young for this to simply be a case of stars passing away due to old age. In fact, with the age of the 10 fighters listed here ranging from just 25-49 years old, we are left having to come to terms with the fact that these were 10 lives that were simply taken far too soon.
A knee-jerk reaction would be to assume that these deaths occurred due to injuries they sustained in the cage, but the truth is that only one of the ten passed away in that manner – although we can surely all agree that’s one too many.
As you’ll read in the pages to follow however, the reasons for the others deaths are just as hard to accept, from sudden medical emergencies to apparent suicide, from freak accidents to cold-blooded murder.
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Friday, Fedor Emelianenko returns to action against Fabio Maldonado at EFN 50 on UFC Fight Pass.
To help promote the bout, the UFC has been releasing previous fights featuring “The Last Emperor.”
The latest addition to the collection comes from 2…
Friday, Fedor Emelianenko returns to action against Fabio Maldonado at EFN 50 on UFC Fight Pass.
To help promote the bout, the UFC has been releasing previous fights featuring “The Last Emperor.”
The latest addition to the collection comes from 2004 when Emelianenko took on former UFC heavyweight champion Kevin Randleman.
Check it out in the video below: