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Third-Party Review Ordered in Tim Hague’s Boxing Death

June 19, 2017 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas

A third-party investigation is being done into the boxing match that killed former UFC fighter Tim Hague. Global News reports that the city of Edmonton, which oversees its athletic commission has announced the investigation in order to gain a better understanding of what happened during the match.

“We want to understand what happened and determine if there’s anything we need to do better,” said Edmonton’s deputy city manager Rob Smyth during a press conference. “We want to make sure our policies and procedures are responsive to the community and making sure these events are absolutely as safe as they can be.”

Hague was facing former Edmonton Eskimos player Adam Braidwood in the boxing match and was knocked out in the second round. He got up on his own but something was determined to be wrong and he was rushed to a nearby hospital where emergency surgery was done for a brain injury. Hague died on Sunday after being taken off life support.

Smyth added regarding why a third party is investigating, “We want to retain — we don’t know who or how yet — a third party to do a comprehensive review and our thinking is … that review will have to get information from all of the different individuals who were part of organizing the event.”

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