LAS VEGAS – Mark Coleman was honored throughout UFC 300 after enduring a life-threatening expertise.
Coleman, 59, saved his dad and mom from their burning dwelling final month in Ohio. He was sedated and intubated due to smoke inhalation however made a full restoration after “battling for his life” whereas hospitalized.
The UFC Corridor of Famer was invited to attend Saturday’s occasion at T-Cellular Enviornment and wrapped the BMF belt round a victorious Max Holloway’s waist after he knocked out Justin Gaethje.
“I’m blessed to be right here,” Coleman mentioned backstage throughout UFC 300. “I’m wholesome, and well being is wealth, and I’ve that. I’m very lucky. God was with me a couple of month in the past, and he acquired me by means of the scariest evening of my life.
“We got here by means of with my mother and pop nonetheless alive. I didn’t fairly have sufficient in me to get my canine Hammer, however he’ll at all times be with me the remainder of my life. He meant the world to me, my first canine ever.”
Wanting on the panorama of the UFC, Coleman mentioned he would like to see a girls’s BMF title, too, one thing Jessica Andrade referred to as for not too long ago.
“We positively want a (girls’s) BMF, they usually’ll let themselves be identified who it’s,” Coleman mentioned. “If she got here out of retirement, Joanna (Jedrzejczyk) can be the right BMF to begin it off. Who needs Joanna? She’d come out of retirement for it, I’d guess.”
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