Rising boxing star Georgia O’Connor, 25, passed away just weeks after marrying her partner, following a tragic battle with cancer that she said was repeatedly ignored by doctors.
The former Commonwealth Youth Games gold medalist revealed in January: “There’s really no easy way to say this, but I have cancer.” She shared that she had ulcerative colitis and PSC—conditions that made her cancer-prone—but despite 17 weeks of “constant pain,” her symptoms were dismissed. “Not one doctor f**ing listened to me,”* she wrote. “They gaslit me… refused to investigate… One even told me it’s ‘all in my head.’”
Later, she was told the cancer was terminal, and doctors also discovered dangerous blood clots in her lungs. O’Connor criticized the delay in diagnosis: “They could have done something before it got to this stage.”
Despite her health, she tried to stay positive: “I have what people consider the worst disease… but I’m still able to smile.”
She married Adriano on May 9. Tributes have poured in from the boxing world, with Boxxer calling her “a true warrior,” and friend Ellie Scotney writing: “A smile that never fades, a heart that will forever live on.”
