This article was originally published in 2015. It is updated regularly as new fatalities in MMA are documented
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This weekend it was reported that 27 year old Ramin Zeynalov died after suffering a strike to the head in an Azerbaijanian MMA event. This is the 11th death in the contemporary history of MMA. Like with boxing, the majority of the deaths appear to be in lower weight classes where weight cut methods as well as dehydration may play a role. right here is the listing to date:
1. American Douglas Dedge died from “severe brain injuries” two days complying with an unregulated March 16, 1998 bout in Kiev, Ukraine. (Weight Unknown)
2. A Korean determined only as Lee died on may 12, 2005 in an unregulated bout in Samsong-dong, South Korea. The reported cause of death was heart attack. (Weight Unknown)
3. American Sam Vasquez died complying with a knockout loss at Renegades extreme fighting bout on October 20, 2007 in Houston Texas. This was the very first noted death in a regulated MMA bout. The reported cause of death was blunt trauma of the head with a subdural hemorrhage. (Fought at 145 lbs)
4. American Michael Kirkham was pronounced dead two days after losing consciousness during a regulated bout in South Carolina on June 26, 2010. An autopsy report listed the cause of death as “subarachnoid hemorrhage of the brain” .(Fought at 155 lbs)
5. Mike Mittelmeier died April 27, 2012 complying with an unregulated April 21 event in Bolivia. He was diagnosed with a cerebral hemorrhage. (Weight Unknown)
6. Dustin Jenson died may 24, 2012 at fast City regional hospital in South Dakota, complying with an unregulated bout on may 18, 2012. The cause of death was a”subdural hemorrhage resulting from blunt force trauma to the head“. (Fought at 155 lbs)
7. Tyrone Mims died complying with a regulated amateur mixed martial arts show on August 11, 2012 in South Carolina. His cause of death was unexplained. (Fought at 180 lbs)
8. Canadian resident Felix-Pablo Elochukwu died complying with an unregulated MMA bout in Michigan on April 7, 2013. (Apparently weighed 260 pounds, although a heavyweight, coroners wrapped up that there was “no evidence” that trauma played a function in the death.)
9. Leandro Souza, died in September, 2013 while cutting weight for Shooto Brazil 43 card in Rio de Janeiro.
10. Booto Guylain died from head injuries complying with his February 27, 2014 loss at EFC Africa 27 in Johannesberg, South Africa. He died “as a result of complications associated to the swelling of the brain“. (Fought at 185 lbs)
11. Ramin Zeynalov died after suffering a strike to the head in an unregulated bout in Azerbaijan in March, 2015. His cause of Camiseta Tigres UANL death is reported as “a brain hemorrhage“. (Weight unknown however video of the bout suggests he fought at a lower weight class)
12. (Update April 28, 2015) A competitor in Washington specify passed out publish fight as well as was hospitalized with kidney failure. He died soon after in hospital. The competitor was Jameston Lee-Yaw.
13. (Update December 11, 2015) – ONE championship competitor Yang Jian Bing died from complications secondary to a fast extreme weight cut for a bout arranged in the Phillipines.
14. (Update April 12, 2016) – Portuguese fighter Joao Carvalho died because of head trauma complying with a bout with Charlie Camiseta OGC Nice Ward complying with a third round TKO loss. The bout took location in Dublin Ireland under the promotion overall extreme Fighting. It was a unregulated bout with the promoter apparently complying with the guidelines set by risk-free MMA. The promotion’s Facebook page listed the bout as being in the welterweight division.
15. (Update July 15, 2017) it is reported that amateur competitor Donshay White died tonight complying with a heavyweight bout at Hardrock MMA 90 in Louisville Kentucky. A coroners report determined that White experienced from a heart condition, specifically, “hypertensive/atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.”
16. (Update August 15, 2017) It is reported that amateur MMA fighter Rondel Clark died complying with an event held at Plymouth Memorial Hall in Plymouth, Massachusetts on Saturday, August 12, 2017. This death has been associated to his fast extreme weight cut.
17. (Update April 1, 2019) Today it is reported that amater competitor Mateus Ferandes died hours after an amateur MMA fight in Manaus, Brazil, on Saturday night. He lost his bout via third round TKO as well as subsequently obviously experienced from several heart attacks dying from heart failure.
18. (Update September 5, 2019) MMANews.com reports that 19 year old amateur competitor Polina Kobzeva Camiseta Borussia Monchengladbach died during a mixed martial arts training session because of heart failure.
19. (Update October 7, 2019) Today it was reported that Bekzon Nurmatov fell into a coma as well as died three days complying with a bout at ACA 100 in Grozny.Share this:
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