Filed under: Bellator , Featured , Featured Videos , Radio Highlight , Videos Dhafir “ Dada 5000 ” Harris claims to have briefly lost his life following a Bellator 149 defeat to Kimbo Slice in February. In what was a frightening and apparently near-fatal situation, Harris (2-1 MMA, 0-1 BMMA) was stretchered out of the cage after what looked like a punch from Slice (6-2 MMA, 2-0 BMMA) sent him crashing face-first into the canvas to end the heavyweight contest by third-round TKO . Harris wasn’t the first combat athlete to be taken away on a stretcher, but the outright exhaustion showcased in the bout was assumed to be the primary factor. In the days following the fight, however, it was reported by MMAFighting that Harris was overcome by a kidney issue in the fight and experienced cardiac arrest en route to the hospital. Harris said he required resuscitation. Dhafir “Dada 5000” Harris and Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson “I was dead,” Harris said on The Dan LeBatard Show.
See the rest here:
After being ‘pronounced dead,’ Dada 5000 hopes to fight again in 2017 – MMA Junkie