Pro Boxer Georgia O’Connor Died at 25 Just 2 Weeks After Marrying ‘The Love of My Live’

Georgia O’Connor made one final want come true earlier than her demise.

The demise of the 25-year-old British skilled boxer was introduced on Thursday, Could 22, by her promoter, Boxxer, in a statement obtained by The Guardian. O’Connor revealed in January that she had been diagnosed with cancer. In February, she stated she suffered a miscarriage.

Just two weeks earlier than her demise, O’Connor tied the knot along with her longtime boyfriend Adriano Cardinali.

“09.05.2025. The day I married the love of my life. 🤍,” O’Connor wrote alongside an image of her husband’s hand over her personal.

Her picture confirmed the couple each sporting their wedding ceremony rings as she held a bouquet of white roses and child’s breath. It was the final put up she shared, uploaded on Could 12. 

(*25*) Earlier than her wedding ceremony announcement, O’Connor final shared an Instagram photo of herself with Cardinali for his birthday in February, the place she referred to him as “my Italian prince.”

“I by no means in my life thought I’d discover somebody such as you. Somebody with such a pure coronary heart and soul, somebody who makes me really feel liked each day, somebody who would do completely something for me… somebody as bizarre as me,” she wrote. 

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Her phrases captioned a single picture of the couple sitting in a restaurant sales space collectively, each smiling at the digicam as they posed with drinks in entrance of them. 

“You aren’t simply my boyfriend however my truest and closest buddy,” O’Connor continued. 

She additionally talked about that the longtime loves “have been via a lot collectively, issues that no couple ought to undergo however we all the time get via as a result of nothing can ever break us.”

“I couldn’t think about life with out you and I am keen on you from the deepest components of my coronary heart,” she wrote, later concluding, “you’re the neatest thing that ever occurred to me and being your girlfriend is the best title I may ever want to have.”

When O’Connor revealed her most cancers analysis in January, she made a post calling out “absolutely the incompetent RATS which have allowed this to occur.”

“For 17 weeks for the reason that begin of October, I’ve been in fixed ache,” she wrote on Jan. 31.

Her put up was a single picture of her sitting in a hospital mattress, hooked to a number of machines as she smiled and gave a “thumbs up” signal.

The professional athlete stated she knew “one thing was critically unsuitable” and felt that she had most cancers as a result of “I’ve colitis and PSC [primary sclerosing cholangitis — a chronic liver disease], two ailments that dramatically improve the probabilities of getting it.”

“I KNOW how excessive my threat is they usually do too. They all the time did. However not one physician f—— listened to me. Not one physician took me critically,” O’Connor wrote.

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She stated she “begged” medical doctors to run assessments, however they refused. “One even instructed me that it’s ‘all in my head.’ And now? Now the most cancers has unfold,” O’Connor wrote.

O’Connor was undefeated in her boxing matches since turning professional in 2021, and gained a number of high-ranking titles, together with a bronze medal at the 2018 Youth World Championships as an beginner fighter.

“Georgia was liked, revered and admired,” Boxxer stated of their assertion after her demise.