Saturday, April 3, 2021
MMA Fighter Khetag Pliev Loses Finger in Ring - InsideHook
On Thursday, Khetag Pliev faced off against Devin Goodale in a Cage Fury Fighting Championships match in Philadelphia, which was broadcast live to UFC Fight Pass viewers. As The Guardian reports, at some point during the match’s first or second round — and the fact that this is not immediately clear is very unsettling in its own way — Pliev lost his finger.
A series of Tweets from MMA reporter Aaron Bronsteter offers a succinct discussion of the gradual realization of all involved in the fight that one of the participants had one fewer digit than he did when the match began.
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