News RIP Anthony “Rumble” Johnson (Confirmed / Updated)

[Brother Numsi]

Rest In Peace brotha

 

[Anthony7]

One of the most exciting fighters to ever watch. Sad he never got his chance at Jones, I think he had a real shot. Far too young to go. RIP legend.

 

[TheBrownGosling]

RIP Rumble. He was an exciting fighter and a beast inside the cage and seemed like a genuinely nice guy outside the cage. Him and Jones pranking Dana at the face off was funny.

 

[Hypetrainofthemonth]

Damn it man! I just had a bad feeling about his illness when he wouldn't talk about it! He was my favorite KO artist, and he died FAR too young! This absolutely sucks, damn it man.



R.i.p to Anthony!

 

[xn7]

what this doesnt get a sticky? not even for a week or two?

 

[ThunderL1ps]

RIP

 

[H41ph_84k3d]

 

[A_bomb47]

RIP, obviously way too young.

 

[Poison Breed]

This is crazy. Rest in piece big guy

 

[hydrobadazz]

Man this sucks he had a great career didnt realize his situation was this bad. Very sad news

 

[Boomb]

R.I.P.

 

[DevNull69]

Prime Rumble - Jones. I wanted to see that even more than Ferg - Khabib.

 

[AndersonSilva23]

One of the toughest to ever walk the face of the earth. RIP Rumble. Fuck Cancer.

 

[The Last King]

RIP Rumble.

I remember when he was still an up and coming prospect, training out of Chute Boxe LA.

He was always one of the good guys. Representated himself and the sport well. This sucks.

God bless his family.

 

[TeenageMutantLesnarTurtle]

Crazy to think it was only last year when there was hype over him coming back, Bellator signing him and the fight with Yoel being made. Shit can go south real fast.

RIP to one of the biggest punchers and scariest dudes in MMA history.

 

[MT7]

Damnit! RIP to the scariest LHW ever. Left the world way too young, I feel for his family.

 

[NikLuk]

Sad news. RIP Rumble.

 

[w00t]

Wtf. I didn't want to think the worst when I saw that recent picture of him, but I had a terrible feeling it could be cancer. We lost Batman and Rumble within a week. Fuck cancer.

This one hurts as a fan. One of my favorites. I never missed a fight and he's one of the few guys I never once rooted against, ever since I watched him sleep Speer against the cage. One of the scariest fighters in the cage, but usually a total class act in his speeches, win or lose.

It's great to see all the love and support.

RIP

 

[brackis1]

Wtf. I didn't want to think the worst when I saw that recent picture of him, but I had a terrible feeling it could be cancer. We lost Batman and Rumble within a week. Fuck cancer.

This one hurts as a fan. One of my favorites. I never missed a fight and he's one of the few guys I never once rooted against, ever since I watched him sleep Speer against the cage. One of the scariest fighters in the cage, but usually a total class act in his speeches, win or lose.

It's great to see all the love and support.

RIP

This.
Dude was an electric and natural striker.
Incredible to watch him throw heat.

 

[PhiladelphiaEagle]

Firstly, couldn’t agree more.

When someone has flown so close to the sun for so long it is only natural to want people to view you as your greatest most magnificent self. I haven’t seen him in many years but the Anthony I knew10 years ago would want everyone to remember him as his best self. I could only imagine how hard it was to go from world beater to physically deteriorating so it is natural he wouldn’t want to shine a light towards that fact and that relatively small sample size piece of his otherwise magnificent life.

I couldn’t have said it better. He didn’t want to draw a bunch of attention to his health. He wanted people to remember him for what he was in that cage. One of the best human beings you’d ever meet outside of it. My heart, like many others, is broken. I am gonna miss my friend. He didn’t deserve this.