Paid Members Egg Shen Posted January 7, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted January 7, 2023 Tragic I dont know a lot about the Lee family but I do know they are a pretty big deal over in One. Awful news. and yes agreed, 2023 can get in the bin. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted January 9, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted January 9, 2023 That's horrendous. 18 years old?! Poor woman. That's when life should have really begun for her. 2023, this is not a good start. Better shape up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted May 1, 2023 Author Paid Members Share Posted May 1, 2023 This is awful. Ex UFC fighter Felipe Colares has died at just 29 years old. Hit by a bus apparently. He had an unsuccessful run in the UFC but won his last fight in Ares FC in France in February. 29, man. Fuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted May 1, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted May 1, 2023 awful 😔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted April 11 Paid Members Share Posted April 11 Just seen Akebono has passed away. I know Akebono was as far as I can tell about as legit a Sumo Wrestler as you can get, but it's his foray into the MMA/K-1 game I know him from. Always have fond memories of watching the big man fight because he came in at the height of the Japanese freakshow/crossover scene and its something that always fascinated me. Mixed feelings though, there was element of sadness and exploitation to the whole thing with Akebono, he was clearly out of his depth and ending up fighting some of the best kickboxers in the fight. He ended up with a complete fight record of 1-14. Sure I remember scenes of his wife and kids being filmed front row whilst he was getting battered too. RIP Akebono, you had a go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted April 11 Paid Members Share Posted April 11 Damn, he was only 54 as well. One of the few sumo tori to get recognition by casuals outside the sport while he was still in it. RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted April 11 Author Paid Members Share Posted April 11 Yeah, I was more familiar with his stints in MMA and K-1 than his Sumo career. Definitely agree with Egg that there did seem to be an element of exploitation to it where they’d routinely roll him out there in fights they knew he had pretty much no hope in. But that was the way they did things over there at the time. I’ll never forget Yuji Nagata basically being used as a human sacrifice and getting fed to Cro Cop and Fedor in his first 2 (and last 2) MMA fights. Akebono had quite a mad career when you think about it though. Huge success in Sumo obviously but even beyond that, he fought the likes of Royce Gracie and Don Frye in MMA, he fought in K-1, he competed at a WrestleMania, he wrestled Brock Lesnar in Japan etc. That led me to look up more of Akebono’s pro wrestling section on his Wikipedia page and he did more than I thought in wrestling. He wrestled everywhere from All Japan to New Japan to NOAH to Hustle to Dragon Gate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted April 11 Paid Members Share Posted April 11 1 minute ago, wandshogun09 said: Yeah, I was more familiar with his stints in MMA and K-1 than his Sumo career. Definitely agree with Egg that there did seem to be an element of exploitation to it where they’d routinely roll him out there in fights they knew he had pretty much no hope in. But that was the way they did things over there at the time. I’ll never forget Yuji Nagata basically being used as a human sacrifice and getting fed to Cro Cop and Fedor in his first 2 (and last 2) MMA fights. Akebono had quite a mad career when you think about it though. Huge success in Sumo obviously but even beyond that, he fought the likes of Royce Gracie and Don Frye in MMA, he fought in K-1, he competed at a WrestleMania, he wrestled Brock Lesnar in Japan etc. That led me to look up more of Akebono’s pro wrestling section on his Wikipedia page and he did more than I thought in wrestling. He wrestled everywhere from All Japan to New Japan to NOAH to Hustle to Dragon Gate. Then this belongs in the On Topic forum as well. Will post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 (edited) Not sure if this is the appropriate thread but BBC just did a story that Francis Ngannou’s 18 month old son has died. Fucking hell.  EDIT.  Edited April 29 by Keith Houchen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted April 29 Author Paid Members Share Posted April 29 Yeah, Francis tweeted this just. Heart wrenching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kfogg1991 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 Absolutely heartbreaking what a awful thing for anyone to go through I hope him and his wife can get through this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted April 30 Paid Members Share Posted April 30 Awful news Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted May 3 Paid Members Share Posted May 3 Damn, that's horrible. Poor guy. What can anyone say or do in the face of something like that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted May 9 Author Paid Members Share Posted May 9 UFC 1’s Art Jimmerson. Only 60 years old. Thought he’d be a bit older than that. Obviously it didn’t go well for him and he was merely cannon fodder for Royce Gracie, but Art was such a memorable part of UFC 1. The things you remember most from that show are Gerard Gordeau kicking Teila Tuli’s teeth out in the opener, Art with one Boxing glove on, and Royce looking like Mr Bean in his pyjamas throttling Hasbro Shamrock in his red speedos. Art always seemed a good guy in interviews and stuff as well. RIP 🥊  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted May 10 Paid Members Share Posted May 10 Sad news Yeah, surprised also to see he was just 60 years old, in my head Jimmerson was a 40+ year retired boxer when he fought in the UFC, but he was only 29. Looking at Wiki he boxed on until 2002. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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