THURSDAY, August 24th, 2000, AT 7:20 PM



Kickboxer
Andy Hug
Died Today In Tokyo

From Brian Ritchie's, AX Website via Zach Arnold's article, posted on submissionfighting.com website's message board.
Mr. Arnold wrote the article to be posted on Dave Meltzer's Wrestling Observer web site.
Thank You All.

Andy Hug, the famous K-1 kickboxer,
died today at a Tokyo hospital at 6:21 PM JST (5:21 AM EST)
from acute myeloid leukemia & bone marrow disease.
Hug was only 35 years old.






At the beginning of August, Hug had been complaining to doctors about attacks of hot fevers in his hospital. In fact, there were over 39 incidents in which Hug was suffering hot fever attacks. Hug immediately rushed home to Switzerland on 8/15 and Hug's personal physician found a swelling tumor on the left side of Hug's neck. When the tumor was found, Hug's personal physician immediately declared the tumor to be malignant and a result from leukemia. Hug was rushed to a Tokyo hospital on 8/19 after suffering more feverish heat attacks.

Chemotherapy was immediate started by doctors on Hug. However, one of the big warning messages that doctors had told Hug was that since he was suffering from heart and/or circulation problems that the chemotherapy had a very high chance of backfiring and destroying Hug's body for good. After starting chemotherapy, Hug suffered hemorrhaging of the brain and inflammation of the lungs (pneumonia), combined with an extremely high fever.

Yesterday, Hug (age 35) fell into a deep state of unconsciousness (a coma), and was immediately placed on a life support machine. After one day of life support, Hug died in a Tokyo hospital. Hug showed the classic physical symptoms of leukemia to his friends, his family, and his doctors. Hug had purple spots on his body, along with digestion pipe bleeding, eyeball bleeding, urinary track bleeding, and bleeding genitals.

Hug, who had a "Swiss retirement" fight on June 3rd in Switzerland, had planned on having a retirement match in Japan in the near future. Hug's appearance for K-1's 10/9 Fukuoka Marine Messe show has been immediately cancelled.

Hug had been facing some personal problems, as well, with a divorce from his wife, Ilona, last month. Hug was the current the WKA World Muay-Thai Super Heavyweight Champion.

Hug, who was born in 1964 in Switzerland, was nicknamed "Iron Man" by K-1 after his dominating performances as a kickboxer. Hug made his pro-debut for K-1 in 1992, and participated in several Grand Prix shows, including a big match against Mike Bernardo (South Africa) in the 1996 GP tournament.



A Message From The
K-1-Europe.com
Website



Shocked and distressed about the sudden death of Andy Hug we say good-bye to one of the most popular and charismatic sportsmen of Switzerland. We've lost a great sportsman and precious person, but most of all a good friend. We will commemorate him and will care for the continuity of his lifework. Board of directors, management and colleagues of First Promotion AG, Liestal/Switzerland, Liestal/Tokyo, 24. August 2000


Link of Andy Hug info;

Andy Hug, Gym Seidoo Kaikan, Birth Year 09-07-'64, Height 180 cm, Weight 98.1 or 215.8 lbs, Nationality: Swiss, Country: Switserland.



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in making this tribute to
Andy Hug and allowing us to post it here on the IKF Pages.