Rising MMA Star Shalie Lipp has handed away in a horror automotive crash days earlier than what was being anticipated as the largest battle of her profession. She was 21. From what’s being learnt thus far, the fighter’s automobile collided with one other on the Purple River Bridge, Moorhead. She wasn’t sporting a seatbelt on the time of the accident on Interstate 94 in Minnesota. The stunning information comes days earlier than her subsequent contest which was slated on Might 20 towards Natalie Gage at Ignite No Mercy 11 on the Kent Freeman Enviornment in Detroit Lakes.
“I am not all the time one which has the forethought to take photos within the second. I assume my reasoning has all the time been that taking photographs additionally takes me out of the second with that consumer, which breaks connection throughout pivotal progress moments. At this time I carry huge remorse in realizing that that is the very best picture I’ve of Shalie,” her coach and coach Eric Sweeney captioned a photograph him together with Lipp.
“My coronary heart is totally damaged. You had been such a beautiful human, filled with promise and drive. One of many few individuals I’ve ever met that was actually reaching for greatness. And I’ll always remember you. It’s past my minds capability immediately to suppose that I will not see you this week…or ever once more. We had been simply cracking the code,” he added.
“Being your pal will change me endlessly. It already has. Thanks for all the moments. All of our discussions, each private {and professional}. The laughs, the tears, and each emotion in between. I’ll keep in mind all of them. I’m grateful for all of them,”he additional wrote.
Lipp had lately returned to the US from a Thailand-based coaching camp the place she had been engaged on enhancing her MMA and Muay Thai. Apart from this sport, she additionally had a eager curiosity in Observe and area and gymnastics in class.