LAS VEGAS – Dan Ige is upset to see how some individuals have reacted to Victoria Lee’s loss of life.
Lee (3-0) unexpectedly died on Dec. 26 at 18. A reason for loss of life has not been launched. The ONE Championship rising star, the youthful sister to fellow ONE fighters Angela and Christian Lee, was scheduled to compete this previous Friday at ONE on Prime Video 6.
A fellow Hawaiian, Ige says he didn’t personally know Victoria, however he is aware of her household. And he took goal at these conspiring the reason for Lee’s loss of life and urges them to indicate her household some respect.
“Truthfully, it’s tremendous arduous,” Ige informed reporters after his win at UFC Combat Evening 217. “I by no means knew Victoria. I do know Christian, I do know Angela, I do know her husband, I do know their dad. When that information got here out, a woman being so younger, 18, tons of potential, liked by so many, it’s simply heartbreaking as a result of that’s one in every of our personal. I pray that individuals give them the respect, as a result of on social media everybody desires to give you the conspiracy.
“Was it the vaccine? Was it psychological well being? Was it this? Was it that? Like, give them freaking respect, as a result of that’s their tragedy, that’s their loss. … Give them some respect. An 18-year-old lady passes, they usually’re going to mourn that for the remainder of their lives. We’re going to get up Monday and f*cking learn the newspaper, ‘What’s subsequent?’ They should mourn that. It’s an absolute tragedy. They have been positively weighing on my coronary heart, and the one factor you are able to do is pray for them, as a result of she’s gone, and there’s no bringing her again.”
Ige (16-6 MMA, 8-5 UFC) snapped a three-fight shedding skid in spectacular trend on this previous Saturday’s UFC Combat Evening 217 co-main occasion when he knocked out Damon Jackson in Spherical 2.
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