MMA STAR Grigoriy Ponomarev suffered a brutal damaged leg throughout Friday night time’s ACA 161 occasion in Moscow.
Ponomarev’s heavyweight bout with Mukhamad Vakhaev served because the night’s co-main occasion.
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The combat lasted simply 40 seconds, being minimize brief by a devastating damage.
Ponomarev, 28, started proceedings by pinning his opponent up towards the cage.
He then shot for a takedown, just for catastrophe to strike.
After being denied the takedown Ponomarev stumbled to the facet, along with his leg buckling underneath his weight and twisting at a grotesque angle.
The Russian’s horror second brought about his leg to snap, with the referee dashing in to halt the combat.
Vakhaev subsequently celebrated transferring into the event semi-finals by performing a backflip.
Ponomarev, in the meantime, was left writhing in agony on the canvas.
MMA followers on-line had been left horrified by the incident.
One wrote: “That’s brutal, I can’t think about the ache he’s in!”
Whereas a second tweeted: “oh my god that is the worst mma damage I’ve ever seen not less than in terms of damaged limbs.”
A 3rd posted: “I am warning you now. This can be a horrible, potential profession ending damage.
“Grigoriy Ponomarev destroys his leg/knee/the whole lot at ACA 161. Look forward to the replay.”
One other pointed to Anderson Silva’s terrible damage suffered towards Chris Weidman, writing: “That is worse than the Silva one nevertheless I cringed extra on the Silva one.”
Others had been livid that Vakhaev struck two extra blows after Ponomarev had damaged his leg.
One tweeted: “Am i the one one who thinks the opposite man was conscious of the ref and the damage however purposely stored hitting him.”
And a second opined: “2 hits whereas the ref was on him, thats poor.”
One other added: “The final two blows had been superfluous, the referee pulled with each fingers already. That is unsportsmanlike behaviour.”
An extra social media person commented: “Good lord… That made me actually uncomfortable.”
Vakhaev’s win noticed him transfer as much as a 12-6-1 skilled file.
Whereas Ponomarev fell to 6-3.
