Super Heavyweight Ross Clifton Dead at 32
Super heavyweight fighter Ross Clifton, known for his loss to veteran Ken Shamrock at a February War Gods event, has passed away at age 32 from an apparent heart attack, MMA Weekly reports:
Clifton’s former trainer, UFC veteran Cal Worsham, said the Rancho Cordova fighter was found dead by his wife Friday morning. Clifton was reportedly watching TV in a recliner chair when the wife went to bed Thursday night.
“He was a jovial teddy bear inside of a grizzly’s body,” Worsham told MMAWeekly on Saturday. “He was just so funny and such a character in the way you’d never expect from a giant of a man like that. He’s absolutely going to be missed.”
Clifton fell to 6-10 after suffering a first-round TKO loss to Rick Vardell at a July 31 Gladiator Challenge event in his most-recent bout.
The 380-pound fighter, nicknamed “The Grizzly,” was submitted by Shamrock in the opening round of their February 13 matchup, after which Shamrock was suspended for one-year due to a positive steroid test.
R.I.P.
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Poor guy. I guess all that weight must put a strain on the heart.
sorry to hear this news
Where’s the huge outcry over this guy’s death when Charles Lewis got 483 pages of tribute? Hell, this guy fought. The other guy he sold t-shirts.
Edited~ FR702
Where is that random person in your community 483 pages of tribute.
dbiz,
dude Charles Lewis did a lot for the sport selling Tapout t-shirts which is synonimus with MMA, ask any kid out there what they know about Tapout and guarantee they will include MMA and the UFC. Sadly enough Ross Clifton was not as well known as Mask but come dibiz, show some respect man. Really i know you like to talk $hit to keep your “reputation” but talking about Charles Lewis, i mean come dude are you 15 years old? SHow some respect.
R.I.P Ross Clifton
Edited~ FR702
Usually I’ll stay clear of the biz commentaries, but this is a little below the belt, even for them (sorry, I group you two together for the most part, better or worse).
Charles Lewis helped create MMA, in that HIS company made it financialy feasible for broke-a$$ fighters to get sponsor support and make some extra coin from fighting. Without Charles Lewis the UFC MIGHT not have existed in the form it does now; hell, most fighters in the USA probably would have gone to PRIDE to make much more money in lieu of sponsor support in the early-mid 2000s.
Anyways, tasteless comment there dbiz. This guy must have known he was tremendously overweight, if not flat out obese. His death, albeite sad, is his own doing. I’m not saying Mask didn’t speed a little leading to his death, but Mask will be missed dearly, and Ross, sadly, will be no more than a footnote in the history of MMA.
Best wishes to Ross Clifton’s family and friends.
*Note I would like to state that BsBiZ has nothing to due with this and hasn’t even commented on this piece at all, I (for now) am going to leave this comment clear of editing to give time for a response if so desired by either… Furthermore this is NOT going to turn into an anti dBiZ rally, I’ve edited his comment and left the basics there, I understand where everyone is coming from on this… Thank YOU
FR702
Not sure what you edited there fr, but the post was entirely clean and without defamatory comments. Not trying to start anyting here, just trying to keep respect for the recently passed.
Once again, I stated that I group the “biz bros” together as they tend to double team others and seem to, for the most part, be on the same page (as you’ll note, it was a “sorry, but I group you together”, and not a “you two are the same, f this and f that”). Appologies once again to bsbiz if he doesn’t support dbiz’s comment.
I stand by my earlier statements though.
And my statement revolved around the fact that you don’t shear a car in half in an accident (hitting a pole) without GROSSLY speeding. If Clifton is responsible for his own death due to his weight, then Lewis was just as responsible for his due to the fact that he was driving like an F-1 driver without the F-1 safety features.
Are both sad, yes. But the difference in reactions blows my mind. And as much as I called Lewis out on his own post here, I’ll do it when things like this happen. The number of people whose comments can be summed up with “Wow, too bad. But he was fat” is just as “sickening” as anything I said.
Dang.
380.
Poor guy, no wonder his heart gave out.
At that size, I’m surprised he was able to get up and down the stairs, let alone throw on the gloves.
I hope he finds himself in a better place, and that his family and friends are able to come to terms with their loss…
“380 Poor guy”? He did it to himself, I promise. Being that large is a choice. Sure it’s sad the he died, for him and his family, but don’t act like him being that overweight was because he was some sort of victim.
Nice condolences to the Clifton family, Justin.
Meh, I deal with death differently from most people… obviously.
It’s really nothing personal against Clifton or his family. If one of my overweight family members that smokes dies from a heart attack it will be sad, but I won’t see them as a victim of anything but their own decisions.
Sorry if I offended anyone, my comment wasn’t necessarily meant to offer any condolences, merely a commentary on the way that people tend to make everyone out to be a victim of circumstances, when often people create their own circumstances. I have no pity for Ross, but I do have some for his family. I also have no pity for DJ AM, it’s sad for his family and friends, and I have pity for them, but not for him as an individual, he chose to do drugs.
I wonder what his training consisted of. Because I’d imagine that even though your a pro super heavy weight fighter you have to be sheddin some pounds training.
Sorry for the loss
****. That is too bad. Hope his wife is doing ok.
I can see why scamrock used roids to this fellow. R.I.P big guy.
“Roids to fight this fellow” is what I meant to say sorry.
RIP. Sounds like he was a cool dude. Too late to argue about his weight now.
In a world of copy “journalism,” MMA Weekly lifted this from Carson’s Corner without giving proper credit.
Well shame on them. (Not the first time I’ve seen them lift something without giving credit.)