{"id":301433,"date":"2025-11-23T09:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/301433\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T09:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:34:18","slug":"chicago-mma-fighter-dies-after-competition-in-cicero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/301433\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago MMA fighter dies after competition in Cicero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmiav4r23000e01qjx5j6oltc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">A mixed martial arts fighter died after his bout in west suburban Cicero on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmiavmq61002n357tlgxny97p@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Isaac Johnson, 31, collapsed toward the end of his fight at the Matador Fighter Challenge hosted at Cicero Stadium, 1909 S. Laramie Ave., according to town officials, the Cook County medical examiner\u2019s office and a fight promoter.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmiavmqa9002o357th3kx3sbm@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">An ambulance was called at 8:38 p.m. to take Johnson to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where he was pronounced dead shortly after midnight, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmiavmqc8002p357t18ejbmk8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Cicero police were conducting a death investigation. An autopsy Saturday didn\u2019t rule on Johnson\u2019s cause or manner of death, with results pending further investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmiavmqe2002q357tah7qouc5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Johnson, a Chicago resident, was on the bill for a heavyweight Thai boxing matchup on a night of \u201chigh-stakes, high-intensity matches,\u201d an event website said.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmiavmqn3002r357tmiwejvf9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">\u201cI don\u2019t have the words to express how I feel right now,\u201d promoter Joe Goytia said in a social media post. \u201cAll I can say is my deepest condolences to his family, friends, and teammates. We will know more as the medical report is released.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n          Featured Image Photo Credit: Getty Images\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mixed martial arts fighter died after his bout in west suburban Cicero on Friday night. Isaac Johnson,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-301433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301433","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=301433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}