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The UFC fight turned into a bloodbath. It only took one hit!
Medics pored over the injured athlete for two hours.
Most fans of mixed martial arts are always happy to have a fierce cut in the octagon. And at the recent UFC Fight Night tournament in the USA, the fight of the Mexican Rafa Garcia against the Kazakh from China Hayisaer Maheshat gave such a spectacle to the fans.
It only took one elbow strike!
cut an artery
The mere fact that a Mexican fighter is entering a fight under the rules of MMA already portends a tough fight. And when a young Kazakh from China is listed among his opponents, one should definitely expect an uncompromising massacre. And the expectations of the fighters justified in full!
The first round in this fight turned out to be quite equal, Maheshat looked better in the first half of the five-minute period, delivering accurate blows in the Thai style. Garcia took the lead in the second half. During the fight, the difference in the height of the athletes immediately rushed – Hayisaer was 12 centimeters taller than Rafa, and this factor significantly influenced the course of the fight. It seemed that already in the second round, a fighter from China would achieve dominance due to this advantage.
However, Garcia’s explosive technique and good counterattacks did not allow Maheshat to feel like the master of the cage. But one of the strikes of the Kazakh at the beginning of the second round became really dangerous for Rafa. In one of the episodes, Khayisaer hit his opponent with his elbow in the temporo-parietal region, opening a cut on his head, from which blood immediately gushed out.
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However, this did not affect Rafa’s ability to fight and his mood. On the contrary, the incident even provoked him – like a predatory shark, the Mexican felt the taste of blood and gradually began to dominate the battle. Garcia skillfully combined wrestling and striking, and the opened cut filled Maheshat with more blood than Rafu himself. During the break, the cutman closed the damage to the Mexican with Vaseline, but such a “repair” did not last long.
Garcia continued to smash in the standing and ground Hayisaer, washing him in his own blood. Visually, it seemed that the cut in this fight was not opened by the Mexican athlete – almost the entire body of Maheshat was covered with Garcia’s blood from head to toe. As a result, Rafa brought the fight to victory by a judicial decision – an absolutely fair verdict.
What is especially interesting, after the fight, the famous fighter Cub Swanson, who seconded Garcia in this fight, said that with an elbow Maheshat, it turns out, interrupted Rafa’s artery. It took UFC medical personnel nearly 2 hours to stop the bleeding on the Mexican’s head. If the doctor on duty had paid attention to the cut of the Mexican during the fight, it is possible that the fight could have been interrupted. However, fortune was on Garcia’s side that day.
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World heavyweight champion (over 90.7 kg), Ukrainian Alexander Usik He will attend the World Sports Summit to be held in Dubai (UAE) between 29-30 December.
According to the organizers, the boxer will act as a speaker and guest on the theme “Warrior-poet: in the mind of Alexander Usik.”
Usik’s speech will be moderated by renowned speaker Nick Santonastasso, who has worked with the Ukrainian on several occasions: “I am grateful for the opportunity. I look forward to the chance to reveal all the treasures of a boxing legend.”
Many important names will attend the summit: football players Rio Ferdinand, Peter Crouch, Ronaldo, Roberto Baggio, Alessandro Del Piero, Andres Iniesta, former world champions Manny Pacquiao (boxing) and Khabib Nurmagomedov (UFC), tennis player Novak Djokovic.
Usik last appeared in the ring in July 2025, when he knocked out British boxer Daniel Dubois in the fifth round. Next year, the Ukrainian representative is expected to meet with former world champion American Deontay Wilder.
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Dembele is ranked fifth and Usyk is ranked 14th. The best athlete of 2025 in Europe has been announced
Multiple world record holder, two-time Olympic champion in pole vault, Swede Armand Duplantis He was chosen as the best athlete of 2025 in Europe.
In the survey participated by 23 news sources across the continent, Duplantis received 184 points, ahead of Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz, Roland Garros and US Open champion and Slovenian cyclist who qualified for the 2010 Turkish Gentlemen’s Show.
World heavyweight champion Ukrainian boxer Alexander Usik He took 14th place, shared with Norwegian biathlete Johannes Boe.
At least 62 athletes (20 women and 42 men) from 22 sports, representing 24 countries, scored in the survey. The most representatives in the ranking are from Norway (9), followed by Spain (6), France (5), the Netherlands, Italy and the United Kingdom (4 each).
Among the sports, football is the most representative (10), followed by athletics (8), basketball (8), tennis (5) and swimming (5).
Rating of the best athletes of Europe 2025:
- Armand Duplantis (Sweden/athletics) – 184 points
- Carlos Alcaraz (Spain/tennis) – 143
- Tadej Pogacar (Slovenia/cycling) – 134
- Femke Bol (Netherlands/athletics) – 76
- Ousmane Dembele (France/football) – 70
- Lando Norris (Great Britain/Formula 1) – 68
- Jannik Sinner (Italy/tennis) – 57
- Arina Sabalenka (Belarus/tennis) – 56
- Marco Odermatt (Switzerland/alpine skiing) – 45
- Johannes Kläbo (Norway/cross-country skiing) – 29
- Leon Marchand (France/swimming) – 27
- Marc Marquez (Spain/MotoGP) – 25
- Iga Swiatek (Poland/tennis) – 19
- Johannes Boe (Norway/biathlon), Alexander Usik (Ukraine/boxing) – 16 each
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Former world heavyweight champion (over 90.7 kg), American Deontay Wilder (44-4-1, 43 KOs) shared his expectations for the upcoming fight against WBC, WBA and IBF titleholder Oleksandr Usyk (24-0, 15 KOs).
“You know my next opponent. Usyk challenged me to a fight. He said he wanted to meet me in the ring. I accepted the challenge. “I push horses” and “I feel it, I feel it hard.”
What’s my plan? Be smart, be faster, use my agility, be tough, get in the ring and knock him out. I am known for my strength, I need to show it. “I’ve been through a tough journey in my life, but I’m back and ready to beat Usyk,” Wilder said.
The American had 49 fights in the professional ring and won 44 victories (43 of them ahead of schedule). In June, Wilder knocked out his compatriot Tyrell Herndon, ending his two defeats in 2023 and 2024.
Usyk last appeared in the ring in July, when he stopped Briton Daniel Dubois. The Ukrainian became the absolute world champion but lost a title by refusing to defend his WBO belt in October.
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