RCMP probe Alberta MMA fighter death [Video]

Police are investigating the death of a man at a mixed-martial arts fight Saturday on the Enoch First Nation adjacent to Edmonton.

Trokon Dourash, 33, died from injuries he sustained in an Ultra MMA bout held at the Enoch Community Centre, according to a statement to CTV News Edmonton on Tuesday from his pregnant wife.

RCMP on Monday confirmed they are investigating the death.

Dourash and his wife have two children.

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Fellow amateur fighters said Dourash, an Edmonton man who was relatively new to the sport, seemed to be doing well in the ring until he wasn’t.

He was eventually helped out of the cage in physical distress.

“He was transported to the back room and he was there for maybe 40 minutes minimum,” fellow fighter Natalia Rajkovic told CTV News Edmonton on Tuesday.

The event staged by the U.K.-based Ultra MMA was billed as one for beginners following eight weeks of training to “get in great shape” and as a charitable fundraiser. 

Rajkovic …