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In Memoriam: Fallen Sports Stars of 2024
The martial arts assemblage is mourning a tragic loss.
Guilherme “Bomba” Vasconcelos, a nonrecreational combatant who antecedently dated Demi Lovato, has died, his loved ones confirmed to MMA Fighting. He was 38 years old.
The athlete’s uncle Walter Vasconcelos Jr. also spoke to his nephew’s passing connected societal media, writing connected Oct. 15, via translation, “Sad, precise bittersweet to accidental goodbye, Guilherme Vasconcelos! And truthful acold from america successful the USA. My beloved nephew, my godson, loving begetter of small Naomi.”
Walter continued to enactment however the MMA fighter’s household members mourned his loss, including Guilherme’s parent Elisabete, adding, “We were looking guardant to your accomplishment astatine Christmas, which volition nary longer happen. Life is simply a enactment and we aftermath up to this heartbreaking news. We commune for you!”
No origin of decease has been shared astatine this time.
Guilherme—who was nicknamed “Bomba” professionally—got his start, per MMA fighting, successful his location state of Brazil. Across his seven-year nonrecreational UFC and Bellator career, the jock accumulated 10 wins earlier his status successful 2019.
And portion helium was known wrong the warring community, helium became much broadly known successful 2017 when helium concisely dated Demi.
Following the quality of his passing, a fig of Guilherme’s friends and colleagues, including longtime jiu-jitsu coaches Cristiano Lazzarini and Vinicius “Draculino” Magalhaes, honored his legacy.
Instagram/Guilherme Vasconcelos
As Cristiano wrote connected Instagram, via translation, “Of each my countless students you were the bravest I've ever had! In moments of chaos helium was a machine... successful trivial times helium was a saccharine boy... we had a trajectory that had a small spot of everything... his debut successful nonrecreational MMA, with a victory, against a feline who had 10 wins successful a enactment and had 19 fights.”
He continued, “It was 1 of the happiest moments of my beingness successful sports.”
Vinicius, likewise, spoke to the jiu jitsu satellite champion’s warring spirit.
“Rest successful Peace, Warrior,” he wrote. “One of the bravest and astir honorable fighters we had connected our team. My sincere condolences to the family. Today our squad is successful mourning.”
Vinicius’ station included a repost from Guilherme, successful which the combatant antecedently reflected connected what helium learned nether the instructor’s tutelage.
“Knowledge volition instrumentality with you everlastingly and cipher tin ever instrumentality it from you,” Guilherme wrote successful the post. “And the cognition you summation from training, teaching and competing is priceless! It's inactive 1 of the champion things I've ever heard from someone. Since that time I unrecorded by that code.”
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