Clovis Hancock
It’s something of a miracle that Clovis Hancock is even alive today to tell the story of how he clinically died in the cage as the result of a weight cut gone bad.
Hancock had been attempting to cut from 215lbs to 170lbs in the space of two months to compete at LFA 26 in 2017, and in the final days he sensed something might be wrong due to feeling dizzy and sick, but he thought he could push through it.
In the end he did make weight, but what he didn’t know is that in doing so he’d left himself dangerously close to death.
It wasn’t until he was standing in the cage ready to fight the next night that he realized something was wrong as he felt light-headed and his body wasn’t responding the way it normally would.
Then in the second round Hancock suddenly collapsed and as doctor’s rushed to attend to him they had to put a tube down his throat to help him breathe. Hancock’s heart then stopped beating and so they literally had to bring him back to life with two shocks from a defibrillator.
LFA cutman David Maldonado estimated Hancock was dead for approximately five minutes, while at hospital he was diagnosed with kidney failure, cardiac arrest and a heart contusion.
Hancock has since retired after being advised by doctor’s never to fight again.
