UFC legend Don Frye hospitalized with heart condition

MMA pioneer and UFC legend Don Frye was recently hospitalized due to a heart condition. "The Predator" was suffering from arrhythmia and could have died if it weren't for fellow MMA legend Gary Goodridge.

Goodridge, who fought Frye three times during their careers, called Frye's daughter and she sprang into action. 

“What brought me in here is my daughter,” Frye said on his YouTube channel from his hospital bed. "Gary Goodridge turned on me, betrayed me, went behind my back, called the boss. The boss came over and threw me in the truck and I got stuck here for a few days.

"I had AFib (Atrial Fibrillation) again. They shocked me out of that back in 2016. It lasted almost, almost a decade," Frye continued. "I've been feeling like sh*t for the last couple of years, but in the last three or four months I've been really going downhill, really steady, really fast."

Goodridge was in the hospital room checking on his friend when Frye filmed the YouTube video. 

"You can tell when (Goodridge) came over and I couldn't even go out and feed the horses. So, (Goodridge) knew something was wrong," Frye said. "I still feel tired. I've got a couple of new medications in me, so I'm feeling better. I'd breathe, I wasn't getting any air in. I had 96% oxygen intake, circulation, but it just didn't feel like it, but I"m back up to 99% or 100%. I can feel it now. I think the new medicines kicked in. They just got to adjust it to how much I need."

“I really am happy that we came down here when we did,” Goodridge said sitting next to Frye's hospital bed. “Sometimes toughness is too tough. Don’t need somebody that’s too tough."

Goodridge advised Frye to go to the hospital three weeks prior, but the 60 year-old did not. 

"It was only three weeks not breathing," Frye said. "No biggy. Wasn't that bad."