When the UFC pays tributes to just lately deceased fighters earlier than broadcasts, it’s often somebody who competes or competed for the promotion.
Shalie Lipp was completely different.
Lipp, a 21-year-old beginner combined martial artist, was tragically killed in a two-vehicle crash Could 7 in Moorhead, Minn. In response to news station KVLY-11, Lipp was the one passenger within the two autos who wasn’t carrying a seatbelt. 4 different passengers concerned within the accident survived.
4 days later, UFC president Dana White posted a photograph of Lipp on Instagram. Within the caption, he tagged her account and wrote: “I KNOW YOUR NAME…… RIP.”
This previous Saturday earlier than UFC on ABC 4 went on the air, a tribute to the up-and-coming fighter flashed on the display screen. After the occasion, White acquired choked up explaining the promotion’s resolution to memorialize Lipp and why her dying hit him so arduous.
“That lady harm me unhealthy. It messed me up for a number of days,” White informed reporters through the UFC on ABC 4 post-event information convention. “Tragic issues occur every single day. That one acquired me. She was a 21-year-old MMA fighter. She simply acquired again from Thailand coaching for a battle that she was imagined to battle on Could twentieth, and he or she was concerned in a automobile accident. She was the passenger. Everyone else within the accident lived aside from her. Her mother discovered her journal and was studying her journal. On the finish of each entry she mentioned, ‘Dana White will know my identify.’
“Mick (Maynard) acquired a name and referred to as me and mentioned, ‘Hey, I simply wished to let you know that story.’ … I posted about her and talked to her mother a few instances. I’m going to depart her mother alone, I believe I’ve been annoying her Mother since I came upon. I did the most effective that I might do over the previous a number of days to sort of – yeah, I’m not good with this type of stuff. However, yeah, horrible story.” Lipp had been scheduled for her subsequent battle this Saturday at No Mercy XI in Minnesota. In response to her Tapology profile, she was 3-2 as an beginner since 2021. Lipp’s battle on Saturday would’ve been her first of 2023.
