Issues didn’t go in line 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 evening 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 one of the best efficiency of his UFC profession to this point, pummelling Frunza from pillar to publish 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 achieved.
Frunza’s UFC debut was halted by the cageside doctor
Frunza’s proper eye was virtually swollen shut with a small laceration beneath. Nonetheless, that wasn’t what prompted the cageside doctor to name for a mid-round stoppage.
It was really a horrifying harm to Frunza’s higher lip. Whereas followers didn’t get a great have a look at the harm on TV, Dana White gave followers a close-up have a look at the unbelievable graphic harm.
You have got been warned.
The photographs are very harking back to Alistair Overeem’s nasty lip harm 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.
