UFC icon David Abbott recently had a harrowing experience on the operating table, as a liver transplant nearly took his life.
“I finally got caught up with all my wild life and blew a gasket on my liver,” Abbott said in an interview with The Hannibal TV. “But I got a nice transplant and everything’s moving right along.”
The 53-year-old Huntington Beach, Calif., native said he lost 100 pounds and spent 107 days in the intensive care unit during the process. That wasn’t even the worst of it.
“I died five times on the table.