Issues didn’t go in keeping with plan in Daniel Frunza’s UFC debut.
After scoring a formidable second-round knockout in opposition to Vadym Kutsyi on Dana White’s Contender Collection in September, ‘Tigano’ made his promotional premiere at UFC Vegas 105 on Saturday night time in Las Vegas in opposition to Irish striker Rhys McKee.
Beforehand winless contained in the Octagon, McKee entered the bout determined for a win and ended up delivering the perfect efficiency of his UFC profession up to now, pummelling Frunza from pillar to submit and flattening the Romanian an unbelievable 3 times within the opening spherical.
To Frunza’s credit score, he by no means backed down and in the end made it out of the spherical, however by then, the injury had already been accomplished.
Frunza’s UFC debut was halted by the cageside doctor
Frunza’s proper eye was virtually swollen shut with a small laceration beneath. Nevertheless, that wasn’t what prompted the cageside doctor to name for a mid-round stoppage.
It was really a horrifying damage to Frunza’s higher lip. Whereas followers didn’t get a great take a look at the damage on TV, Dana White gave followers a close-up take a look at the unbelievable graphic damage.
You’ve got been warned.
The photographs are very paying homage to Alistair Overeem’s nasty lip damage in opposition to Jairzinho Rozenstruik in 2019.
The loss dropped Frunza to 9-3 in his blended martial arts profession whereas McKee improved to 14-6-1. He’s now 1-4 within the UFC.
