A Death In The Octagon?

[HHJ]

There have been multiple deaths in Formula One and NASCAR and that hasn't stopped people from racing cars at ridiculous speeds.

People die from boxing every year it seems like, it hasn't stopped boxing. Not sure if anyone has literally died *in* the boxing ring during a fight (from punches), usually it seems to happen a day or two after the fight. Like the South African boxer Simiso Buthelezi who randomly got disoriented and started throwing punches at an empty corner of the ring, the ref immediately waved off the fight and then Buthelezi died later on.

I know there was a German boxer, Musa Yamak, who recently died of a heart attack in the ring, but that seems like something that could happen in any sport.

A death that literally happened in the Octagon say from a blow that landed wrong causing a really fluky injury would be pretty dramatic and upsetting since there's not much precedent for it in MMA. I don't think it would kill the sport though. It might cause some changes to the rules.

In MLB Ray Chapman was killed by a pitch that struck him in the head in 1920. That led to a few rules changes like banning spitballs and umpires changing the baseball whenever it becomes dirty (allowing the ball to remain white and easier for hitters to see). Batting helmets didn't become mandatory for another 30 years.

Kovalev fought someone and they started havin problems in the ring,and lost conciousness right after...I think they died a few days later.

Watching them stretcher him out is awful

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

They are pretty safe with the pre fight medicals. If you have a big issue then they will most likely catch it when they run diagnostic tests. I don't think there will be deaths. I am surprised nobody died cutting weight yet. There are so many accounts of fighters going to into mini seizures during their cut.

I think that's when someone would die most likely in the UFC, I hate weight cutting and wish they could get rid of it.

 

[HHJ]

"That all changed today, when light heavyweight contender Roman Simakov passed away from the injuries sustained in his fight with fellow compatriot and contender Sergey Kovalev. Kovalev delivered a sound beating to Simakov over the first four rounds, then Roman evened a fight for a moment but the sheer power of the Ural banger took its painful toll, and Simakov was forced to go down in the sixth. He bravely stood up to continue fighting but was put down again with a combination of punches early into the seventh. He was unable to continue after that, even though he got up. Moreover, he soon lost consciousness and was taken out of the ring on a stretcher.

Simakov was rushed into resuscitation ambulance #24 in Ekaterinburg, where he had surgery. However, he has never regained his consciousness and succumbed to his mortal fate this night…(three days later)"

 

[Duck Dodgers]

https://worldofbuzz.com/man-shockingly-collapses-dies-playing-badminton/

“His name is Herman and he is in his 40s. He has a weekly routine of playing badminton every Tuesday from 6.00am – 8.00am at Gelanggang Olahraga Sunter (GOR) but he collapsed and died when he was playing his second match.”

Vaccine must have time-traveled back to 2017.

 

[Lee_]

If we're using the dubious assumption that fighters on gear can hit substantially harder

Stopped reading right there. Do you know about that thing called Major League Baseball? You sound like a steroid sympathizer.

 

[TRUS8888]

Bruce Buffer will pop a vein one of these days.

Life goes on. People die in every activity including taking a shower.

Young, peak physical fitness people though? I think because UFC is so competitive it kind of filters out the types of people that die in those types of unexpected situations.

Bruce Buffer is probably the oldest and least healthy person standing in the octagon the chances of some freak incident happening is actually more likely than a fighter.

 

[TheTickG]

They are pretty safe with the pre fight medicals. If you have a big issue then they will most likely catch it when they run diagnostic tests. I don't think there will be deaths. I am surprised nobody died cutting weight yet. There are so many accounts of fighters going to into mini seizures during their cut.

This is a big part of it I think.

One of the earliest MMA deaths I recall was Douglas Dedge. His passing seemed to have a lot more to do with his condition than the fight itself.

 

[Senzo Tanaka]

I think the closest we've come is the last Robocop fight. An artery was literally exposed in his head. If a hard punch landed, it would have looked like Kill Bill, he would have died in the octagon and the government would be all over the UFC. It was exciting but I can't believe they let that fight go on.

 

[avenue94]

Stopped reading right there. Do you know about that thing called Major League Baseball? You sound like a steroid sympathizer.

More agnostic.

It sounds like you don't understand basic research methods or science and think steroids are magic.

Can you point me to any deaths in combat sports where steroids were rhe prime secondary cause? Or any systemic reviews that find steroids increase fatality rate against clean opponents?

Also I'll humor you, did someone with roid rage beat someone to death in MLB or something? I'm curious what a ball game has to do with combat sports fatalities

 

[The UFC Brander Collector]

Kim Winslow did her best

 

[HHJ]

I thought Tony was dead after the Chandler kick. He was out a long time with his feet crossed and even Joe mentioned it and seemed worried. Longest a guys been knocked out ever i believe.

Theres been guys out way longer than that.

 

[Lee_]

More agnostic.

It sounds like you don't understand basic research methods or science and think steroids are magic.

Can you point me to any deaths in combat sports where steroids were rhe prime secondary cause? Or any systemic reviews that find steroids increase fatality rate against clean opponents?

Also I'll humor you, did someone with roid rage beat someone to death in MLB or something? I'm curious what a ball game has to do with combat sports fatalities

You are a roid sympathizer that will ignore the most blatantly obvious; we have nothing to talk about because you will go around in circles in any discussion and believe what you want to believe. You have your mind made up no matter how obvious it is that we hit harder and get stronger on roids.

 

[Prologue]

Damn, just realized after all this time that we have already see a death in the Octogan. 6 pages in and no one else remembered either.

Shame.

Spoiler: Not for the painted heart...

 

[TSexy]

I thought we were gonna see a death right here (not UFC though). This one sticked with me in a bad way for a while...

 

[Bowel-forged Stool]

Bruce Buffer will pop a vein one of these days.

 

[mahavishnunj]

Life goes on. People die in every activity including taking a shower.

I nearly killed myself in the shower, no shit. When I regained consciousness, as dazed as I was, I still remember thinking,"That would've been the dumbest way to die in history".

 

[Sticko]

I think the closest we've come is the last Robocop fight. An artery was literally exposed in his head. If a hard punch landed, it would have looked like Kill Bill, he would have died in the octagon and the government would be all over the UFC. It was exciting but I can't believe they let that fight go on.

That was not an artery. You don't have any arteries on the surface of your face.

 

[markantony20]

It would be fucked up, the fight would probably never be on Fight Pass, and I’d feel terrible.

 

[markantony20]

I thought we were gonna see a death right here (not UFC though). This one sticked with me in a bad way for a while...

Jesus. Ref the fuck were you doing? I get letting guys be warriors but dude was not fighting back at all, just barely surviving.

 

[CalmLlama]

Just imagine...he justs drops dead in the middle of his annoucement. What would they do? Do they always have Joe Martinez ready in backup?

Joe would jump in and finish up.