{"id":58799,"date":"2025-08-10T09:13:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T09:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58799\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T09:13:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T09:13:30","slug":"ufc-vegas-109-fighter-toshiomi-kazama-transported-to-hospital-knockout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58799\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Vegas 109 fighter Toshiomi Kazama transported to hospital knockout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Bantamweight prospect Elijah Smith scored his second Octagon win in absolutely brutal fashion as he knocked out Toshiomi Kazama with a vicious slam at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-results\/313675\/ufc-vegas-109-results-live-streaming-updates-dolidze-vs-hernandez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Vegas 109<\/a> last night (Sat., Aug 9, 2025) inside the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-results\/381465\/highlights-blue-chip-prospect-elijah-smith-channels-rampage-jackson-with-horrific-slam-ko-ufc-vegas-109\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch highlights<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UFC company officials confirmed to <a href=\"http:\/\/MMAmania.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMAmania.com<\/a> that Kazama was transported to a local \u201cSin City\u201d hospital immediately after his loss for a precautionary CT scan of his head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Japanese fighter was discharged from the hospital a few hours later, and the UFC broadcast revealed that his scans were negative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kazama (11-5) is now 1-3 inside UFC, including his loss in the Road To UFC finals. The 28-year-old fighter has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2023\/8\/26\/23846761\/watch-full-fight-video-highlights-ufc-singapore-results-espn-armfield-tko-kazama\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">knocked out<\/a> in all three of his losses (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2023\/8\/26\/23846761\/watch-full-fight-video-highlights-ufc-singapore-results-espn-armfield-tko-kazama\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">all in the first round<\/a>), and his latest at UFC Vegas 109 was by far the most brutal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It is unclear if Kazama will get another fighter in the promotion with his current record inside the Octagon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Meanwhile, Smith (9-1) made a major statement to the 135 lb division with his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-bonuses-and-awards\/381476\/bonuses-anthony-hernandez-banks-extra-50k-for-main-event-mauling-ufc-vegas-109\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$50k Performance of the Night<\/a> knockout. The Contender Series alum won his UFC debut earlier this year against Vince Morales and is riding a seven-fight win streak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For complete UFC Vegas 109 results, coverage, and highlights, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-results\/313675\/ufc-vegas-109-results-live-streaming-updates-dolidze-vs-hernandez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Bantamweight prospect Elijah Smith scored his second Octagon win in absolutely brutal fashion as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,38688,702,7788],"class_list":["post-58799","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-medical-suspensions","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58799","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=58799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}