Former Bellator fighter Ryan Curtis has suffered a devastating coaching damage.
Featherweight contender Leah McCourt, a detailed buddy of Curtis’, introduced on social media that Curtis injured his again, neck, and backbone throughout a coaching session Thursday. McCourt additionally shared a GoFundMe web page in search of donations to supply assist to Curtis and his household.
See McCourt’s publish under.
“As an athlete and human the unimaginable has occurred to our beloved Ryan,” McCourt wrote. “He was concerned in a life-altering incident throughout a coaching session on Thursday eleventh January.
“Ryan has suffered a damaged again, damaged neck, and dislocated backbone. Throughout this damage, trauma was additionally induced to Ryan’s spinal twine. The injury is assessed as essentially the most extreme that may occur to a spinal twine. He was rushed to the Royal in Belfast and underwent emergency surgical procedure.
“Presently Ryan has no motion in his legs or his left arm. The street forward is unknown and can contain a minimum of 5 months of him in hospital, adopted by an additional time period with a specialist backbone group. There is no such thing as a actual finish date to when this therapy will probably be full.”
Curtis, knowledgeable MMA fighter since 2015 who holds a 6-4 document, most just lately fought this previous April at a Cage Warriors occasion in Dublin, Eire, the place he misplaced to Nicolas Leblond by way of first-round submission. He additionally beforehand competed for Courageous CF and was victorious in his lone Bellator look in February 2019.
“Ryan won’t ever have the ability to do what he loves, and struggle or practice in MMA once more,” McCourt wrote. “A sport he has devoted his life to from the age of 11.
“Ryan will probably be out of labor for the foreseeable future and we try to take any extra load or stress off Ryan’s household and daughter by making a web page to lift some funds to assist in direction of rehabilitation, very important therapy, restoration, and supporting his household.”
UFC celebrity Conor McGregor additionally despatched out a message of assist for Curtis after studying about his accidents.
“Sending my assist and nicely needs to Dublin MMA fighter Ryan Curtis after struggling life altering damage in follow,” McGregor wrote on Twitter. “Here’s a hyperlink to his go fund me , he has a younger daughter and the household wants our assist.”
