Chris Padilla suffered a horror minimize throughout his UFC London undercard bout with Jai Herbert on Saturday evening.
The Californian light-weight received his hand raised through cut up choice in a low-output affair, though he battled via some late adversity when his left eyebrow was ripped open by an elbow.
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As quickly because the shot landed, blood started to leak down Padilla’s face and painted his chest purple – a lot to the horror of UFC followers.
Reacting to the deep wound, one supporter wrote: “Seems like a shark chunk.”
One other tweeted: “Positively going to have a pleasant little scar from that.”
A 3rd posted: “Brutal! On the intense aspect, he received.”
A fourth commented: “Rattling, that minimize is nasty! Congrats on the W although.”
In the meantime, anyone else added: “Worst minimize I’ve seen shortly.”
Fortunately, Padilla noticed out the competition to the ultimate bell to tug off the upset on away soil.
Many pundits felt Herbert ought to have been given the nod, though, in reality, neither man did a lot of observe over the three rounds.
Herbert falls to 3-5-1 contained in the UFC Octagon whereas Padilla improves to 2-0.
‘The Black Nation Banger’ established himself as a fan-favourite fighter through the early portion of his UFC profession.
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His first 4 fights with MMA’s premier promotion produced fireworks and all resulted in finishes.
In his fourth outing again in 2022, he met future UFC featherweight champion Ilia Topuria in an absolute barn burner.
Herbert dropped Topuria with an enormous head kick within the opening spherical however the Spaniard miraculously survived by holding onto the Birmingham puncher for pricey life.
Within the second spherical, together with his witts now about him, Topuria flattened Herbert with a dynamite proper hand in a surprising comeback.
It stays the toughest combat of Topuria’s unblemished 16-0 profession in what continues to be his solely look at light-weight.
That’s anticipated to alter quickly although, with Topuria just lately vacating his 145lbs strap to maneuver as much as light-weight.