{"id":27484,"date":"2025-07-27T08:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T08:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/27484\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T08:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T08:55:08","slug":"ufc-star-left-disfigured-with-horrific-injury-during-fight-mma-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/27484\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC star left disfigured with horrific injury during fight – MMA – Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Referee Jason Herzog had to call off the UFC<\/a> preliminary undercard featherweight fight between Mohammad Yahya (12-6-0) and Steven Nguyen (10-2-0) after Yahya’s eye was disfigured following a series of takedowns as the UFC returned to Abu Dhabi<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By the end of the second round, Nguyen set a UFC record with six knockdowns. He was awarded a technical knockout (TKO) victory by doctor’s stoppage.<\/p>\n

Medics tended to a bizarre-looking wound under Yahya’s left eye (yet another line of serious injuries in a sport known for its brutality<\/a>). His lower lid appeared to enlarge and severely flare up, creating a sort of planet-like lesion on the left side of his face.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been working so hard for this moment. It’s finally here,” Nguyen said after his win. “The fight’s not over until it’s over. I came into UFC 0-1, and I came back, and I wanted that finish. Here we are now.”<\/p>\n

Many took to social media to weigh on on the bout. \u201c[Referee] Herzog wants to see a dead body up close and I respect it,” wrote former UFC fighter Zac Pauga.<\/p>\n

“Congrats Nguyen you earned that and set a record for knockdown,” wrote current star Terrance McKinney, who boasts the Fastest finish in UFC Lightweight division history.<\/p>\n

The fight was on the undercard for Reinier de Ridder’s middleweight win over Robert Whittaker via split decision (47\u201348, 48\u201347, 48\u201347) in an event officially billed as UFC on ABC: Whittaker vs. de Ridder.<\/p>\n

“I expected to take [Whittaker] down and choke him out, but he was amazing, man. So tough, so durable, heavy f***ing hands,” de Ridder said.<\/p>\n

Whittaker was gracious in defeat. “Pretty butt hurt, to be honest, [but] you know what? He did what he said he was going to do,” he said.<\/p>\n

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“I thought I ticked all the boxes, but the pressure was a lot. It was just a lot of pressure, he has a lot of skill sets \u2014 and I mentioned it before, he’s got a particular way of fighting. I couldn’t really throw too many spanners in the works. He got it off more times than not and he walked away the winner, good on him.”<\/p>\n

This followed Petr Yan’s batnatmwieght win over Marcus McGhee via unanimous decision (29\u201328, 29\u201328, 29\u201328)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Referee Jason Herzog had to call off the UFC preliminary undercard featherweight fight between Mohammad Yahya (12-6-0) and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,21804,641,638,11571,21803,82,21260,640,17367],"class_list":["post-27484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-disfiguring-injury","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-mma-section","tag-mohammad-yahya","tag-sports","tag-steven-nguyen","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-abu-dhabi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27484","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=27484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}