{"id":301360,"date":"2025-11-23T08:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T08:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/301360\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T08:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T08:43:07","slug":"chicago-mma-fighter-dies-after-competition-at-cicero-stadium-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/301360\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago MMA fighter dies after competition at Cicero Stadium, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Chicago MMA fighter died after a competition Friday night at a suburban stadium, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incident happened at Cicero Stadium, 1909 S. Laramie Ave. in Cicero, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/watch\/live\/11064984\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A spokesperson for the town of Cicero confirmed that an ambulance took an injured fighter to Loyola University Medical Center around 8:38 p.m. Friday, and he was pronounced dead Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The deceased fighter was identified as 31-year-old Isaac Johnson, who lived in Chicago, the Cook County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Promotions for the <a href=\"https:\/\/matadorfighterchallenge.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Matador Fighter Challenge;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Matador Fighter Challenge<\/a> Friday night at Cicero Stadium showed Isaac Johnson in a heavyweight Thai matchup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A fight promoter posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/761417877\/posts\/10164417587402878\/?mibextid=wwXIfr&amp;rdid=cAVmmViqjajzGndf#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:message to social media;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">message to social media<\/a> Saturday, saying Johnson collapsed at the end of his fight Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cicero police are investigating. No further information was immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chicago MMA fighter died after a competition Friday night at a suburban stadium, officials said. The incident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[135322,49,48,134847,135083,135319,641,135080,135321,638,20154,82,135320],"class_list":["post-301360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-abc7-chicago","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cicero","tag-cicero-stadium","tag-cook-county-medical-examiner","tag-fighting","tag-isaac-johnson","tag-loyola-university-medical-center","tag-mma","tag-mma-fighter","tag-sports","tag-town-of-cicero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}