10 tragic deaths in MMA

#8 Ivan "JP" Cole

Ivan and Kymberli Cole

Russian Roulette was first described in Russian literary giant Mikhail Lermontov's "The Fatalist", where a character puts a gun to his head, loaded with an unknown number of bullets, pulls the trigger and survives.

Since then, it has been featured in many works of fiction, from Georges Surdez's short story of the same name to Robert de Niro's classic, "The Deer Hunter" and Denzel Washington's "Malcolm X". It is one of those things that should have stayed in the imagination and never manifested itself.

Sadly, it did, and the results were as harrowing as you would expect. And none more so than in the case of Ivan "JP" Cole. The 25-year-old's body was found in a Dallas apartment in June 2016, dead of a gunshot wound. His wife, Kymberli, confirmed the cause of death and was in need of financial assistance to help her and their young daughter. Cole had lost three of his five fights, his last one being under the Bellator banner.