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Chinese fighter dies in bid to make weight
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Mixed martial arts fighter Yang Jianping of China died after collapsing from severe dehydration in his attempt to make the weight for a flyweight bout in the Philippines.
The organizer, One Championship, said that the 21-year-old had been pronounced dead at a Manila hospital from cardiopulmonary failure on Friday, hours before the scheduled fight.
“Yang, a native of China was hospitalized at the San Juan De Dios Hospital... after a sudden collapse on the morning of 10 December 2015,” said a statement on the organizer’s website yesterday.
The statement did not say what caused the collapse of Yang who last fought in June.
On Friday, One Championship had said in a separate statement that Yang’s fight with a Filipino flyweight “has been cancelled due to Yang’s severe dehydration from attempting to make weight”.
It said the Chinese fighter was suspected to have suffered from “dehydration and suspected heat stroke” and had been taken to hospital to undergo “intensive rehydration treatment”.
A one-minute silence was held at the venue on Friday to honor Yang, Loren Mack, a spokesman for One Championship, said. The One Championship website home page was partly blacked out with a one-line announcement: “In Loving Memory of Yang Jianping (1994-2015).”
One Championship chief executive Victor Cui said on the website: “There is nothing more profoundly tragic and sad than when a member of the One Championship family, current or past, passes away.”
In the last message posted on his Weibo social media site on November 30, Yang had been upbeat about the fight. “I’m excited, I have been struggling for so long and I’m finally able to participate in One FC, the top Asian competition,” he wrote.
“I have been waiting for this opportunity for so many years! Please grant me power, make me really feel the passion of this competition.”
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