Buck Cooper, a combined martial artist from Little Forest, New South Wales, Australia, was concerned in a horrific grime bike accident 11 years in the past, with accidents so dangerous they left him begging police to shoot him to finish the ache.
“I keep in mind I froze for a bit then appeared down and my leg was utterly torn off,” Cooper stated.
“I began screaming. I had my guts hanging out, pelvis was shattered, elements of me that have been meant to be within me weren’t.
“My testicles have been hanging out, fortunately I nonetheless have them although.”
Cooper died quite a few occasions within the ambulance however was revived by paramedics.
Two months after his accident, Cooper was launched from the hospital together with a brand new prosthetic leg.
In an try and rehabilitate himself, Buck Cooper started coaching combined martial arts.
“As a child I did karate and educated a little bit of MMA and all that kind of stuff. I discovered that helped me simply get my energy and helped me get via the method,” he stated.
On June 1, Cooper will face Glenn Dickson within the first amputee MMA bout in Cairns.