Bodybuilder Craig Licker
Lifeless At 57
… Former IFBB professional
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Craig Licker — a former IFBB Professional Bodybuilder — has tragically handed away on the age of 57 … in keeping with experiences.
In line with experiences, Licker died earlier this week … nonetheless, the reason for demise is at the moment unknown.
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Dave Palumbo — a fellow retired bodybuilder — mourned the passing, saying Licker had “a very gifted construction and self-discipline for bodybuilding.”
“He earned his IFBB Professional card throughout an period the place only a few professional playing cards had been awarded,” Palumbo mentioned. “He dominated the tremendous aggressive middleweight class on the 1994 NPC Nationals (the yr Paul DeMayo gained the HW and General).”
“I’ll miss our all the time attention-grabbing conversations and his nice humorousness … RIP my good friend!”
Licker made his IFBB debut in 1995, competing on the Niagara Falls Professional Invitational and the Houston Professional Championship. After a while away from bodybuilding, he returned to the stage in 2015, putting twelfth within the Chicago Professional and sixteenth within the Tampa Professional.
Licker’s passing comes on the heels of one other bodybuilder, Hayley McNeff‘s passing, who died final week on the age of 37.
Like Licker … McNeff’s explanation for demise just isn’t identified, although her obituary described her passing as “surprising however peaceable.”
HM and Licker sadly be a part of the listing of bodybuilders who handed away this yr. In Could, Guilherme Henrique handed away on the age of 30. A month later, Zulina Hoyos Mendez was killed in a hammer assault on the age of 43.
Vito Pirbazari — a bodybuilder and actor from “Canine in Berlin” died after collapsing on a treadmill, whereas Jodi Vance, 20, suffered a deadly coronary heart assault in Could.
RIP