{"id":158078,"date":"2025-09-21T04:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T04:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158078\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T04:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T04:35:08","slug":"fighters-knee-injury-leads-to-immediate-brutal-knockout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158078\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighter&#8217;s knee injury leads to immediate brutal knockout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having a rough Saturday? Chances are, Mariusz Ksi\u0105\u017ckiewicz has it beat.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of unfortunate events, Ksi\u0105\u017ckiewicz (11-3) lost his KSW 110 bout against Sergiusz Zaj\u0105c in an unimaginable way in the opening round.<\/p>\n<p>After trading shots in the clinch, Ksi\u0105\u017ckiewicz unloaded a pair hard left hands, which Zaj\u0105c (9-1) blocked well. A right teep kick followed, but Ksi\u0105\u017ckiewicz&#8217;s plant leg buckled underneath him, and he crashed to the canvas from a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>A bad situation immediately got worse.<\/p>\n<p>Zaj\u0105c was right there to capitalize on the moment and rained down hard hammerfists, putting Ksi\u0105\u017ckiewicz out cold. It all happened so fast, there&#8217;s no telling if Zaj\u0105c even recognized there was an injury.<\/p>\n<p>Check out video of the moment below:<\/p>\n<p>After the fight, Ksi\u0105\u017ckiewicz came to, and had to be strapped to a wheelchair to exit the cage.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/blue-corner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Corner<\/a>\u00a0is MMA Junkie&#8217;s blog space. If you come complaining to us that something you read here is not hard-hitting news, that&#8217;s on you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having a rough Saturday? Chances are, Mariusz Ksi\u0105\u017ckiewicz has it beat. In a series of unfortunate events, Ksi\u0105\u017ckiewicz&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[449,64,63,786,796,801,28007,10280,785,36227,44,323,54447,85,635],"class_list":["post-158078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-arts","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-martial","tag-martial-arts","tag-mixed","tag-mixed-martial-arts","tag-mma","tag-negative","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-negative","tag-sports","tag-sports-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}