UFC middleweight contender Marvin Vettori was reeling from his second straight loss to Roman Dolidze in March earlier this year. But his sorrow was multiplied a hundred times when, in the very next month, his 30-year-old brother, Patrick Vettori, tragically passed away in an apartment fire in Mezzocorona, Italy. Patrick lived alone in his apartment, so when the neighbors finally saw the smoke rising from his home and firefighters responded, it was already too late.

Marvin Vettori ’s younger brother had inhaled too much smoke, which caused his death. In the aftermath, the Italian southpaw penned an emotional message to pay tribute. “You were and always will be number one, my little brother,” he wrote on social media, as per translations. It has been six months since that tragic da

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