Georgia O’Connor fulfilled one last request before she died.
The 25-year-old British professional boxer’s death was confirmed Thursday, May 22, by her promoter, Boxxer, in a statement received by The Guardian. O’Connor announced in January that she had been diagnosed with cancer. In February, she revealed that she had miscarried.
Just two weeks before her death, O’Connor married her longtime boyfriend, Adriano Cardinali.
“09.05.2025. “The day I married the love of my life. 🤍,” O’Connor wrote, accompanying a photograph of her husband’s hand over her own.
Her snapshot featured the pair wearing their wedding rings while she carried a bouquet of white flowers and baby’s breath. It was her last post, published on May 12.
Prior to her wedding announcement, O’Connor had uploaded an Instagram photo of herself with Cardinali on his birthday in February, referring to him as “my Italian prince.”
“I never believed I’d find someone like you. She stated, “Someone with such a pure heart and soul, who makes me feel loved every day, someone who would do absolutely anything for me… someone as weird as me.”
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Her statements accompanied a single photo of the pair seated in a restaurant booth together, both smiling at the camera while posing with drinks in front of them.
“You are not just my boyfriend but also my truest and closest friend,” O’Connor concluded.
She said the lifelong lovers “have been through so much together, things that no couple should go through, but we always get through because nothing can ever break us.”
“I couldn’t imagine life without you, and I adore you from the deepest parts of my heart,” she wrote. Later, she added, “Being your girlfriend is the greatest title I could ever wish to have.”
When O’Connor confirmed her cancer diagnosis in January, she posted a message criticizing “the absolute incompetent RATS that have allowed this to happen.”
“For 17 weeks, since the beginning of October, I’ve been in constant pain,” she wrote on January 31.
Her post included a single photograph of her sitting in a hospital bed, hooked up to various equipment while smiling and giving a “thumbs up” sign.
The professional athlete stated that she realized “something was seriously wrong” and suspected she had cancer since “I have colitis and PSC [primary sclerosing cholangitis — a chronic liver disease], two diseases that dramatically increase the chances of getting it.”
“I know how high my danger is, and so do they. They always have. But not a single doctor listened to me. O’Connor stated, “Not one doctor took me seriously.”
She said she “begged” doctors to do tests, but they refused. “One even told me it was ‘all in my head.'” And now? O’Connor wrote, “Now the cancer has spread.”
O’Connor has gone unbeaten in boxing fights since turning professional in 2021, winning multiple high-ranking championships, including a bronze medal at the 2018 Youth World Championships as an amateur boxer.
“Georgia was loved, respected, and admired,” Boxxer wrote in a statement following her passing.