The news of UFC veteran heavyweight Tim Hague’s death on Sunday , following a knockout blow sustained during a boxing match in his native Canada, furnished us with a jarring and chilling reminder of the mortal peril combat-sports athletes place themselves in. As much as we tell ourselves otherwise, and wholeheartedly want to believe it, pursuits such as MMA and boxing are a world away from “mainstream” sports. Hague’s tragic passing at 34 is merely the latest, harrowing evidence of this. There’s just no circumventing the hard reality of what’s potentially at stake when two combatants enter a ring or octagon.
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