{"id":152467,"date":"2025-09-18T10:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152467\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T10:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T10:43:09","slug":"graphic-video-ufc-noche-fighters-toe-nearly-ripped-off-by-cage-in-knockout-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152467\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphic video: UFC Noche fighter\u2019s toe nearly ripped off by cage in knockout loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alessandro Costa didn\u2019t have a great night at Noche UFC 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Brazilian Flyweight was supposed to throw down opposite Edgar Chairez but instead faced a short-notice replacement in Alden Coria. As it turns out, Coria \u2014 a main training partner of top contender Joshua Van \u2014 is pretty dang sharp, and the two were really throwing down for most of two rounds. Costa wasn\u2019t winning the fight, but it was competitive until something suddenly went wrong for \u201cNono\u201d near the end of the second. It wasn\u2019t clear what injury he suffered, but Coria easily tee\u2019d off on Costa and forced the TKO stoppage early in round three (watch here)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Well, we now have more context! Per MMA Junkie\u2019s Danny Segura<\/a>, Costa\u2019s big toe was caught in the cage and ripped open in round two. In the video below (mirror here)<\/a>, Costa\u2019s toe is being worked on by doctors after the event.<\/p>\n

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MMA is not the sport for those with sensitive toes. Famously, Jon Jones suffered a nasty dislocation<\/a> while defending his Light Heavyweight belt versus Chael Sonnen, but he was able to stop Sonnen before the referees or doctors were aware of the injury. As for Costa, the injury and subsequent loss drops his UFC record to 2-2 overall, as he\u2019s now alternated wins and losses in his four Octagon bouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alessandro Costa didn\u2019t have a great night at Noche UFC 3. The Brazilian Flyweight was supposed to throw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702,9468],"class_list":["post-152467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}