{"id":899780,"date":"2026-09-18T00:02:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T00:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/899780\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T00:02:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T00:02:43","slug":"regina-product-josh-hagerty-suspended-two-games-by-cfl-for-alleged-groin-punches-on-liam-talbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/899780\/","title":{"rendered":"Regina product Josh Hagerty suspended two games by CFL for alleged groin punches on Liam Talbot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incidents took place during B.C.\u2019s win over Montreal during Week 15, resulted in &#8216;life-altering&#8217; damage to Als running back<\/p>\n<p>The CFL came down hard on Regina product Josh Hagerty on Thursday, suspending the B.C. Lions defensive back for two games after he allegedly stuck a member of the Montreal Alouettes in the groin twice during their Week 15 matchup.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/3downnation.com\/2026\/09\/17\/cfl-suspends-josh-hagerty-two-games-for-striking-liam-talbot\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reporting by 3DownNation<\/a>, Alouettes running back Liam Talbot received two blows to the groin during special teams play, neither of which was penalized by officials.<\/p>\n<p>The damage from the blows was so severe that Talbot needed\u00a0surgery that has been described as life-altering and will end his season.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the two plays in question below:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Hagerty has played 13 regular-season games with the Lions, registering 11 defensive tackles and nine special teams tackles.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Saskatchewan Huskies grad is in his sixth season in the CFL, having previously played for the Toronto Argonauts and Edmonton Eskimos.<\/p>\n<p>The punishment is the second-longest in-season suspension for an onfield incident in history.<\/p>\n<p>B.C. is currently on a bye week, meaning Hagerty will miss the Week 17 game on Friday, Sept. 25 against the B.C. Lions and the Week 18 game on Saturday, Oct. 3 against the Toronto Argonauts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Incidents took place during B.C.\u2019s win over Montreal during Week 15, resulted in &#8216;life-altering&#8217; damage to Als running&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-899780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899780","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=899780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}