For the second consecutive numbered UFC event, at least one fighter left the octagon with a gruesome broken limb.
Saturday night at Houston’s Toyota Center on the ESPN-aired premininary card for UFC 262, world-class grappler Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza caught the bad break. He was trapped in an arm-bar by up-and-coming middleweight Andre Muniz that fractured the 41-year-old Souza’s right arm.
Souza’s arm could be heard to crack with a long pop, and the UFC broadcast played it back for viewers at home.
With 14 submission victories on his MMA ledger to go along with several world championships in submission grappling, Jacare knows the risks and handled the injury coolly.
“I heard it snap,” Muniz said in the octagon after the fight. “I let go not only out of respect, but I’m from jiu-jitsu, I knew it could hurt him even more if I didn’t let go.
Last month, Long Island’s Chris Weidman was on the wrong end of a checked leg kick that fractured his leg. That was a much more stunning development due to its rarity — and the fact that he was on the other end of the last time it happened in the UFC, against Anderson Silva in 2013. Weidman took to Twitter shortly after Saturday’s bout to extend his sympathies to Souza, an opponent in the UFC three years ago at Madison Square Garden.
“Oh man. I can’t watch this. Feel terrible for Jacare,” Weidman wrote.
Souza’s status since leaving the cage was not immediately available.
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