Footage of the ruthless knockout that put Cyborg in the hospital.#bellator #mma pic.twitter.com/eQZ5E0FGAJ
— UFC Outloud (@Ufcoutloud) July 17, 2016
MMA fighter Evangelista "Cyborg" Santos was knocked out by Michael Page at Bellator 158, taking a brutal knee to the head and causing a dent in his skull.
The jumping knee caused a literal dent in Cyborg's head:
Photo of Evangelista Cyborg's fractured skull via Cris Cyborg. This is one of the worst MMA injuries I've ever seen. pic.twitter.com/VmIpLYtFdp
— Adam Martin (@MMAdamMartin) July 17, 2016
Which caused the pro fighter to have surgery:
Cyborg https://t.co/ShsV6RCeTr pic.twitter.com/Z46oIg563X
— Jolassanda (@Jolassanda) July 29, 2016
Even after the devastating injury, Cyborg reportedly can't wait to get back in the Octagon, telling MMA Fighting:
"I had surgery yesterday, and thank God everything went fine," Santos told MMA Fighting before leaving the hospital on Thrusday. "It lasted seven hours, and the hospital will give Bellator a full report later today. God guided the doctors in this surgery so everything went well."
The people that fight MMA are just a different species. Absolutely unreal that he can just come back from fractured skull.
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