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US medicine KOs Mark Coleman

  • 14-03-2015 9:45am
    #1
    SeanFrank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86 ✭✭


    Looks like Mark Coleman is in some trouble. Nice to see that in 3 days he has already made 1/3 of what he needs.

    http://www.gofundme.com/SaveTheHammer

    Be nice to get some Irish squids to him. He is a legend of the sport and by all accounts a really decent guy too.

    Dana put in 10k but I hope the UFC at least rounds it off if he doesn't make the 100.
    Mark on the support he’s gotten from the MMA community and his feelings towards everyone who’s already raised almost 20,000 for his surgeries.  

    “It’s just overwhelming. I’ve been so emotional throughout this whole thing and I didn’t even know nothing about this ‘Go Fund Me’. Wes Sims has been there for me from the beginning and you know I try to give back and help him as well, but I woke up from this surgery, didn’t know nothing about it and there’s no denying it’s a big step. I don’t like…I like helping people, you know? It’s not so easy for me to get the help, but for Wes Sims to start this Go Fund Me project. I didn’t know much about it but all of a sudden, yes to see how many people that, I don’t I could have met them all. I wish I would have been able to meet all of these people, and I’m hoping someday maybe I can meet them and try to give back; and I do do a lot of appearances and it really just blows my mind that you could really make somebody’s day just by taking a picture with them and being nice to them, and like you said it just blows my mind how many people just started donating. Some people five dollars, some people eight dollars. And these people don’t owe me nothing, and I'm not going to deny it, it’s going to be needed and it’s going to be used, because it’s going to be a very costly process here, but for somebody to send me eight dollars which obviously they probably could have used the eight dollars themselves, but they decided to send it to me. You know it’s just hard to even comprehend and I’m just really appreciative. I’m just blown away by the whole thing and I just appreciate all these fans and I'd rather call them friends than fans at this point.”


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  • #2
    DK224
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭DK224


    Yeah its such a shame to see how things have turned out for him, hopefully the momentum the collection is gaining will take care of his medical bills. I remember watching his fight against Shogun live in the o2 and was expecting Shogun to blow him away early but even though Coleman was way past his best at 44 he hung in there, caused Rua a few problems and it was the fight of the night!


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