Report: Hague's family to file wrongful death suit against city of Edmonton

The family of the late fighter and UFC veteran Tim Hague has retained the services of personal injury firm Assiff Law for a lawsuit against the city of Edmonton, according to journalist Mike Russell.

The law firm reportedly sent the city a letter confirming the retention of its services by the Hague family on Friday for what combat sports law expert Erik Magraken believes to be a wrongful death suit. This happened the same day Edmonton city council announced it passed a bylaw putting all combat sports on ice until the end of 2018 "or until Council provides further direction."

A Unified MMA show, which had been scheduled to go down in the city next Friday, has been cancelled as a result of the temporary ban.

The city had announced its designs on launching a third-party investigation of Hague's death mere days after he'd succumbed to injuries sustained in a boxing match sanctioned by the Edmonton Combative Sports Commission in June, with the moratorium passing once councillors had been updated on the inquiry.

Per the city's release, the final report on Hague's death is expected to be released to his family, city council, and the public no later than Dec. 14.

Hague died at 33 on June 18 after being brutally knocked out by Adam Braidwood in a boxing match two nights prior. He'd been dropped several times before going out cold in the second round - this, after suffering knockouts in competition twice over the previous six months. Each of his four professional bouts in the ring - three of which he lost - had taken place at the Shaw Conference Center in Edmonton, according to BoxRec.

The UFC alum had also succumbed to strikes in four of his last five MMA bouts between August 2015 and July 2016, with two of those defeats coming under the Unified MMA banner in Edmonton.