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Title: Kimo Leopoldo dead
Post by: FREAKgeek on July 21, 2009, 08:34:31 AM

http://www.inquisitr.com/29889/ufc-veteran-kimo-leopoldo-dead-aged-41/

Title: Re: Kimo Leopoldo dead
Post by: americanbulldog on July 21, 2009, 12:12:21 PM

Started a thread on this, but this maybe a troll that all the media outlets have picked up on.........Beau, OMA, Reggie Warren Sr, got me on this. 

Title: Re: Kimo Leopoldo dead
Post by: americanbulldog on July 21, 2009, 02:39:51 PM

Kimo is not dead. 

Title: Re: Kimo Leopoldo dead
Post by: big L dawg on July 21, 2009, 02:48:06 PM

Quote from: americanbulldog on July 21, 2009, 02:39:51 PM

Kimo is not dead. 

he's still alive?

Title: Re: Kimo Leopoldo dead
Post by: americanbulldog on July 22, 2009, 01:50:06 AM

Quote from: big L dawg on July 21, 2009, 02:48:06 PM

he's still alive?

10-4 Dano. 

Title: Re: Kimo Leopoldo dead
Post by: SinCitysmallGUY on July 22, 2009, 11:31:59 AM

He's dead isn't he? I read at like 10 sites he died of a heart attack? What's the truth?

Title: Re: Kimo Leopoldo dead
Post by: FREAKgeek on July 22, 2009, 11:35:04 AM

He's alive. The correction is now on yahoo:

http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news?slug=ki-kimo072109&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

Title: Re: Kimo Leopoldo dead
Post by: SinCitysmallGUY on July 22, 2009, 11:39:48 AM

Reports of former mixed martial arts fighter Kim "Kimo" Leopoldo's death were news to him, since he's still alive.



 
Leopoldo

A number of MMA Web sites incorrectly reported Tuesday that Leopoldo, 41, had died of complications from a heart attack on Monday. Other media outlets, including some newspapers, followed suit.

"According to the media, you're dead," his manager, Ron Kort, recalled telling Leopoldo, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The very much alive Leopoldo checked the Internet and learned of his reported demise.

"When I saw the sites, it scared me," Leopoldo said, according to the Times. "I wondered, are they predicting the future or am I cursed?"

Leopoldo did have something significant happen Monday, but it wasn't a heart attack. According to the report, he was sentenced to 10 days of community service and referred to a drug diversion program in connection with a February arrest, in which he was found in possession of marijuana and wearing a Long Beach police officer jump suit.

The Orange County Sheriff's coroner's office received more than 200 phone calls about Leopoldo on Tuesday, spokesman Jim Amormino said, according to the times. Amormino took the calls until Leopoldo held a news conference outside the sheriff's office in Santa Ana on Tuesday afternoon.

Title: Re: Kimo Leopoldo dead
Post by: americanbulldog on July 22, 2009, 12:50:38 PM

Quote from: SinCitysmallGUY on July 22, 2009, 11:31:59 AM

He's dead isn't he? I read at like 10 sites he died of a heart attack? What's the truth?

Reggie Warren Sr, OMA, Beau has ultimately trolled the MMA community.  All reports of Kimo's death used the UG as a source, and the UG's source was OMA, Reggie Warren Sr. 

Title: Re: Kimo Leopoldo dead
Post by: gracie bjj on July 23, 2009, 12:10:40 AM

im hopin he aint dead, i was never a huge fan of his but hes a tough dude and gave royce his first real fight in the ufc