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Last Updated: March 14, 2024, 00:01 IST
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UFC Hall of Famer and former champion Mark Coleman was airlifted to a hospital and was “battling for his life” after saving his dad and mom from a home hearth in Ohio this week, his daughter mentioned on Instagram.
TOLEDO, Ohio: UFC Hall of Famer and former champion Mark Coleman was airlifted to a hospital and was “battling for his life” after saving his dad and mom from a home hearth in Ohio this week, his daughter mentioned on Instagram.
Morgan Coleman posted that her father went into the burning home a number of instances and was capable of deliver out his mom and father.
Coleman mentioned her 59-year-old father was on the hospital “battling for his life after this heroic act.”
“Our father has always been our hero and means the world to us,” Morgan Coleman wrote. “He is and always will be a fighter. The strongest and bravest man I know.”
Coleman’s mom, Connie, posted on Facebook, saying “Thank God we are alive” and asking for “prayers for Mark.”
A publish on X from UFC author Jonathan Snowden confirmed large injury to the home.
Coleman, type Fremont, Ohio, was UFC’s first heavyweight champion in 1997 when he defeated Dan Severn. He received 16 of 26 fights over his 14-year profession and was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame in 2008.
Coleman was an novice wrestler earlier than his Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) profession, successful an NCAA title at Ohio State in 1988 and competing within the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
Morgan Coleman mentioned in her publish that Mark went again in after bringing out his dad and mom to rescue a canine, Hammer, from the fireplace. She mentioned Hammer didn’t survive regardless of her father’s efforts.
Another of Coleman’s daughters, Kenzie, mentioned on Instagram that Hammer woke her father up along with his barking.
Morgan Coleman has organized a gofundme.com website for her father with a photograph of him in a hospital mattress related to screens and different medical requirements. As of Wednesday afternoon, the location had raised a number of hundreds {dollars} of its said aim of $50,000.
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