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31-year-old Douglas Dedge was an American mixed martial artist who was the first known American competitor to be fatally injured in an MMA fight and the first death in the modern era of MMA. On March 16, 1998, Dedge competed at an unsanctioned "World Super Challenge" event in Kyiv , Ukraine .
Kevin Ferguson (February 8, 1974 – June 6, 2016), better known as Kimbo Slice, was a Bahamian-born American mixed martial artist, professional boxer, and actor.. Originally a bare-knuckle boxer, he became noted for his role in mutual combat street fight videos which were spread online, leading Rolling Stone to call him "The King of the Web
June 6 (The Sports Xchange) - Mixed martial arts fighter Kimbo Slice, who rose to fame in the early 2000s through videos of his unsanctioned street fights and backyard brawls, died on Monday at ...
Evan Lloyd Tanner (February 11, 1971 – September 5, 2008) was an American professional mixed martial arts fighter. He was a former UFC Middleweight Champion and was the first American to win the Pancrase Neo-Blood tournament in Tokyo, Japan.
Prominent MMA fighter and Dublin native Anthony ‘Rumble’ Johnson died Sunday.He was 38 years old. The fighter passed away from a combination of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and a rare immune ...
Brazilian MMA fighter Guilherme “Bomba” Vasconcelos has died at the age of 38. The former UFC and Bellator fighter’s death was confirmed by his uncle, Walter Vasconcelos Jr., and friends on ...
The fight was immediately waved off, and the referee and medical teams rushed into the ring. [91] 12 Oct 2019 Patrick Day: Charles Conwell: 27-year-old Day was knocked down three times in his fight with Conwell. The final knockdown that stopped the fight was particularly brutal, as Day's head violently bounced on the canvas.
On October 28, 2010, World Extreme Cagefighting merged with the Ultimate Fighting Championship. As part of the merger, all WEC fighters were transferred to the UFC. [18] In his UFC debut, Wineland faced former WEC Featherweight Champion Urijah Faber on March 19, 2011, at UFC 128. [19] Wineland lost the back and forth fight via unanimous ...