We know that food can sometimes be fatal and we recently had the bitter experience of the novelist Jean Teulé, victim of cardiac arrest after food poisoning during a meal. Rather rare cases, but which can happen and this is obviously what happened at the beginning of the month for a combat sports star. Several media have announced the early death of mixed martial arts (MMA) champion Alexander Pisarev at just 33 years old. Very sad news for all fans of this violent but very spectacular sport, who therefore lose one of their own.
The news inevitably surprised since the sportsman is still young, but according to information from several media, the fighter was the victim of food poisoning. “Alexander Pisarev died in his sleep and had no chronic health problems. According to preliminary data, death was the result of food poisoning”, a member of the deceased’s team told Russian news agency TASS. It was in his apartment in Moscow that the MMA professional was found by his father on October 30.
I walked over and realized my son wasn’t breathing
“I looked in the room, Alexandre and his wife were sleeping. I approached and realized that my son was not breathing”, the father of the late fighter, Igor Vladimirovich told Pravda. An autopsy will be carried out to find out the circumstances of the death, but according to the sources, the food which would have caused this food poisoning would be a watermelon, since the wife of Alexander Pisarev was hospitalized after having eaten one with his husband. “He had broken fingers after the last fights, but it’s nothing. We all eat the same food, we live together”added his father, visibly credulous in front of this explanation.