Regional welterweight CJ Hancock went into his Legacy Fighting Alliance (LFA) fight last weekend after cutting too much weight, and took a kick to the body which sent him crashing to the canvas.
Fortunately, paramedics were able to revive him following CPR and a couple of jolts from the defibrillator. Hancock was rushed to the hospital for his stopped heart and kidney failure, but is now “feeling much better” and resting comfortably at home.
“A good friend told me it was a miracle coming back from death,” Hancock wrote on Facebook. “And that even though we may not know why yet, there is a reason! Big thanks to all the people that gave me CPR and hit me with the defibrillator!”
Doctors, not surprisingly, have advised him to give up fighting.
Weight-cutting reform has been a hot topic of late, with stateside commissions taking preventive measures to eliminate extreme dehydration. Overseas promotions like ONE Championship have abolished weight cutting all together after tragedies like this.
Hancock is lucky to be alive and will hopefully serve as a cautionary tale to those combatants who still insist on cutting too much weight.
DiceBreakerSteve on November 7th, 2017 at 20:14 UTC »
So now the guy that killed him can safely brag about killing a man and say, "Oh it's okay, he got better."
lanadapter on November 7th, 2017 at 19:11 UTC »
He's like a comic book character death is only a minor inconvenience to him.
drsjsmith on November 7th, 2017 at 17:06 UTC »
Let's throw in that Mark Twain quote:
To be fair, though, MMA fighter CJ Hancock's death was not quite an exaggeration: his heart stopped and he experienced kidney failure.