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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Associated Press

Former MMA fighter Ben Askren ‘died four times’ before life-saving double lung transplant

Former Olympic wrestler and MMA star Ben Askren, who has been hospitalised in Wisconsin after a severe case of pneumonia, revealed in a post on social media that he had undergone a double lung transplant and is in recovery.

Askren said during the Instagram video that he recalls very little of what happened over a monthlong stretch from late May through the first two days of July. His wife, Amy, had said in a series of social media posts that Askren was put on a ventilator in June and placed on the donor list for a lung transplant on 24 June.

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