Dead Iuri Lapicus, star of the Italian MMA: motorcycle accident

The crash on Friday night: transported by air ambulance to Niguarda, today the news of the death. He trained in Giorgio Petrosyan’s gym

Iuri Lapicus, 27, one of the greatest talents of Italian MMA, died after three days in a coma in Milan. Victim of a serious motorcycle accident last Friday, he was transported by air ambulance to the Niguarda hospital in Milan in code red. Unfortunately, the news of his death arrived today. Moldovan by birth but Italian by adoption, in his career he had played 16 professional matches, winning 14 of them, all before the limit (4 by Ko and 10 by submission) and 13 of them in the first round.

The carreer

In 2019 he had entered ONE Championship, one of the most important promotions in the world not only of Mma but also of Kickboxing and Muay Thai, where Giorgio Petrosyan also fights. And right at the gym of the Italian kickboxing star Lapicus he trained. To date he is one of only 3 Italians to have fought for the title in a world top promotion together with Marvin Vettori in UFC and Alessio Sakara in Bellator.

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