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UFC fighter dies of likely drug overdose

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — UFC middleweight Josh Samman died Wednesday after spending nearly a week in a Florida hospital following a probable drug overdose. He was 28.

Dr. Craig Mallak, the chief medical examiner for Broward County, says Samman had been hospitalized for five days, two of which he was brain-dead, before being declared dead.

Mallak said toxicology tests were completed and the death would be listed as a probable drug overdose.

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