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Randy Brown claims that he was compromised a little more than a minute into his UFC 302 clash against Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos.
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Brown put on a striking clinic and survived dos Santos’ wrestling to register a unanimous decision win. Brown revealed that he broke his foot 70 seconds into the fight when his teep kick connected with dos Santos’ elbow. “Rudeboy” was seen immediately limping away but was able to hide the injury from that point forward. Brown claims his entire right side was compromised, forcing him to dictate the entire action with his lead hand.
“Check it out, you can see the way I came out in the first round… watch the fight and put it at 3:50 [mark on the fight clock] in the first round,” Brown said on “The MMA Hour.”
“I throw a kick, a front kick that hit his elbow and you can hear it, it goes ‘pop.’ Destroyed my foot, I go from a 100 to a 50, and I’m fighting with one hand the whole time. Because I can’t twist on that, the one time I did try to twist, I almost fell. And then I just had to stay on that one hand. But [high] caliber fighters, we make adjustments and we see it through.”
When Brown told his corner about the injury in between rounds, his coach just motivated him to decimate dos Santos with his lead hand, a technique they have apparently mastered.
“I whispered it in my coach’s ears in between rounds, but he didn’t care though… What’s he gonna do, he just had to motivate me,” Brown said. “He was like, ‘Yo, I don’t care, you gotta just use that lead hand. Lead hand sophistication. This is what we work on and that’s the whole point of learning lead hand sophistication. Beat that motherf—-er with one hand.’ And that’s what we did.”
Brown is riding a three-fight win streak and 7-1 in his last eight, with his lone loss during that time coming against Jack Della Maddalena.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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