It’s been a tough week for UFC legend Mark Coleman.
On Tuesday morning, the previous heavyweight champion was woke up by his canine round 4 a.m. solely to find that his childhood dwelling was engulfed in flames. Performing rapidly, ‘The Hammer’ carried each of his dad and mom to security, however suffered from smoke inhalation after attempting to save lots of his beloved pet. Coleman was airlifted to a neighborhood hospital the place he remained in a coma earlier than regaining consciousness on Thursday.
Coleman’s recount of the horrifying particulars whereas embracing his two daughters — Morgan and Kenzie — was an undeniably emotional and galvanizing second that rapidly went viral.
Additional updates from the Coleman household appeared to indicate the MMA legend effectively on his option to restoration. A lot in order that ‘The Hammer’ was launched from the hospital on Friday. Nonetheless, Coleman’s oldest daughter revealed that they had been pressured to return to the ability roughly an hour after arriving dwelling as Coleman started experiencing numbness in his arms and ache in his chest.
“Day by day replace. Kenzie right here,” she wrote in a put up on Instagram. “Hello everybody. It’s been a worldwind of every week. Yesterday my dad was launched from st vincents in Toledo the place they thought he was steady sufficient to go dwelling. We had been solely dwelling for about an hour in Columbus when he began to have numbness in his arms and chest ache. After all my sister and I rushed him again to the hospital the place we discovered he has now developed pneumonia.
“Regardless of all of this he’s nonetheless his similar constructive, spunky, spitfire self simply as you may think about from the video above. He needs to once more thanks all for the assist and love you’ve gotten proven him and us throughout this extraordinarily tough time. I’ve learn him so a lot of your guys feedback and he’s so overwhelmed with pleasure. He’s getting relaxation and that i promise to take the very best care of him.
“He’s the true definition of a fighter and defines power like no different. Typically i even suppose he’s an excellent human. He loves you all a lot. He all the time says with out his supporters he’s nothing. It feels good to be dwelling with my daddy. Please proceed to wish for his therapeutic and well being throughout this restoration course of. Hammer home 4 life.”
Mark Coleman’s MMA Legacy has stood the take a look at of time
Mark Coleman is greatest recognized for being the first-ever UFC heavyweight world champion, defeating Dan ‘The Beast’ Severn to say the title after profitable back-to-back tournaments at UFC 10 and UFC 11. ‘The Hammer’ went on to compete in opposition to a slew of top-shelf expertise in each PRIDE FC and the UFC, together with Don Frye, Fedor Emelianenko, Mirko Cro Cop, Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira, and ‘Shogun’ Rua.
In February 2010, Coleman competed within the first UFC battle pitting two Corridor of Famers in opposition to each other when he met Randy Couture at UFC 109.
A GoFundMe marketing campaign established to assist Coleman and his daughters with dwelling bills and mounting medical payments has already blasted previous its preliminary $50,000 objective and is nearing $120,000 with over 2,500 donations. If you happen to’d prefer to donate to the trigger, you are able to do so proper right here.
