MMA fans are used to seeing fighters getting carried out of the Octagon.
Brutal knockouts and utter exhaustion are commonplace when the UFC puts on events.
The referees, despite being in the course of two killers, often escape the cage unscathed.
Nonetheless, that was not the case for referee Mark Smith at UFC 324 in Las Vegas on Saturday night.
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Mark Smith was the person in the center when Ateba Gautier fought Andrey Pulyaev within the penultimate UFC 324 prelim.
The fight went the gap, and everybody appeared to get out of the Octagon without being seriously injured.
Soon after, fan footage shared to social media seemingly showed that Smith had hurt himself in the course of the 15-minute contest.
The veteran official was filmed being carried backstage by two members of the UFC event crew.
Certainly one of them had a shoe in his hand, suggesting that Smith could have suffered some sort of foot injury.
“WTF,” one fan said. While one other asked: “What happened?”
“Hope the legend is okay, you hate to see it,” a 3rd person commented.
“Rolled his ankle pretty bad at the top of the fight,” a UFC 324 viewer tweeted.
“Looked like he twisted his ankle at the top of round 3,” one other agreed.
“Dammm…. That’s not good,” a sixth fan said.
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