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[2] [3] [4] Experts suggest that a combination of the physical nature of the business, no off-season, and potentially high work load (with some wrestlers fighting more than 100 and even 200 matches per year), along with the drug culture in wrestling during the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s contributes to high mortality rates among wrestlers.
Fakhretdinov faced Nicolas Dalby on June 22, 2024, at UFC on ABC 6. [28] He won the fight by split decision. [29] Fakhretdinov was scheduled to face Nursulton Ruziboev on October 26, 2024 at UFC 308. [30] However, Ruziboev withdrew from the fight due to an injury and was replaced by former LFA Welterweight Champion and promotional newcomer ...
Matthew Allen Hughes (born October 13, 1973) [4] is an American retired mixed martial artist with a background in wrestling.Widely considered among the greatest fighters in the history of MMA, he is a former two-time UFC Welterweight Champion, UFC Hall of Fame inductee, and NJCAA Hall of Fame inductee. [5]
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 .
Anthony 'Rumble' Johnson, 38, who spent a decade in the UFC from 2007 through 2017 as one of the hardest-hitting fighters in mixed martial arts history, died Sunday.
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.
A Russian sumo wrestler who was once known as “The World’s Heaviest Boy” has died at the age of 21. According to TMZ, Dzhambulat Khatokhov died recently from chronic kidney complications.
Welterweight is a weight class in combat sports. Originally the term welterweight was used only in boxing , but other combat sports like muay Thai , taekwondo , and mixed martial arts also use it for their own weight division system to classify the opponents.