In the year 2000, a UFC heavyweight match ended in a brutal way.
One of the most horrific injuries to ever occur in the UFC Octagon occurred on this date, December 10, 2011.
UFC 140 was headlined by Jon Jones’ brutal choke against Lyoto Machida to successfully defend his light heavyweight title, but that was not the most gruesome moment of the night at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre.
While Machida was dropped to the canvas after being put unconscious by a standing guillotine, a fellow UFC legend fell to a different kind of submission fate in the co-main event…
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Frank Mir had to snap Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira’s arm at UFC 140
UFC 140 saw a co-headlining clash between former titleholders. The ex-heavyweight champion Frank Mir faced off against Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. Nogueira once held a interim belt.
Mir had already become the first man to knock ‘Minotauro’ out three years prior at UFC 92, and in their redo, he also added the accolade of becoming the first to submit the Brazilian legend to his résumé.
It was a memorable piece for many reasons including the…
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