Yang Jian Bing, a flyweight from China competing in Asia's ONE Championship MMA promotion, died Friday after suffering complications following a weight cut. He was 21 years old.To get more news about yang jian, you can visit shine news official website.
ONE Championship officials announced the news in a release. Luke Thomas of MMA Fighting was the first to report on Bing's passing. The cause of death was listed as cardiopulmonary failure.On Thursday, ONE announced that Bing's scheduled bout with Geje Eustaquio had been canceled "due to Yang's severe dehydration from attempting to make weight." ONE officials also noted in a statement at that time that Bing had "suspected heat stroke" and was "transported to the hospital where he is undergoing intensive rehydration treatment."
Sadly, this is not the first time that the practice of cutting weight—common across all combat sports but long decried by the medical community—has taken a life. In 2013, MMA fighter Leandro Souza collapsed after weighing in for an event in Brazil and later died from complications. It was later determined that Souza took diuretics sometime before his death, most likely as an attempt to facilitate his cut.
There was no immediate information on what, if anything, may have been found in Bing's system, what methods he had been using to cut weight or how much weight he had to cut to make the 125-pound flyweight limit. Most diuretics are banned by most combat sports sanctioning bodies across the world.