Christian Lubenga died a number of days after his debut in Springfield, Massachusetts
An MMA fighter and father handed away aged 27 after dropping his first ever bout in Springfield, Massachusetts, with the reason for dying nonetheless but to be decided.
Christian Lubenga made his debut on March 12 at an AMMO Struggle League 10 occasion on the Huge E.
Shedding through a third-round TKO to Cody McCracken, he was then taken to hospital the place he later handed away on Monday together with his household and teammates on the Black Wolf Martial Arts health club in Orange, Connecticut, left shocked.
“We’re at a lack of phrases. That is what a nightmare appears like,” wrote the health club on Instagram.
“It could actually’t even be correctly articulated with phrases and on a social media submit nonetheless.
“We wished to offer the household a while to make their very own selections about the way to go public with this earlier than we spoke on it out of respect,” the health club added.
“Whereas we ourselves are grieving and it’s troublesome to even sort this out, we felt it applicable to take a second to say a number of issues.
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The health club described Lubenga as not “simply any scholar” and “the form of human who introduced life and lightweight into any room he walked into”.
“Christian was our household,” they stated.
“We shared laughs, tales, blood, sweat, tears. He’s the form of particular person I aspire to be like and I want extra folks had been like him. Well mannered, skilled, humble, all the time sort to everybody it doesn’t matter what.
“We spent tons of of 1000’s of hours collectively doing the issues we had been keen about. Christian was a real martial artist in each side of the phrase and a real warrior. We love you Christian. All of us love you,” the passionate submit completed.
On its web site, New England Combined Martial Arts said that “the ending of the battle didn’t appear very violent” and that “there isn’t a phrase on what precipitated Lubenga’s dying” at current.
“However no matter what was the attributing consider his passing, it’s a tragedy for his household, buddies, coaches, teammates, and our MMA neighborhood as a complete,” the group added.
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Of Congolese descent, Lubenga dreamed of at some point changing into the fourth UFC champion from Africa after heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou and his middleweight and welterweight counterparts Israel Adesanya and Kamaru Usman.
Along with training Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai, Boxing, and Capoeira on the College of Bridgeport in Connecticut, Lubenga had a Grasp’s diploma in Pc Sytems Evaluation.
