Igor Severino’s UFC profession lasted a couple of spherical and a half.
The 20-year-old flyweight made his debut with the promotion on Saturday at UFC Vegas 89, shedding to Andre Lima through disqualification. The explanation: biting.
Whereas grappling within the second spherical, Severino sank his tooth into Lima’s higher left arm for seemingly no motive. Lima instantly began yelling and signaled for referee Chris Tognoni to cease the battle, which he did after a number of seconds.
The battle was quickly referred to as after Tognoni inspected Lima’s arm and consulted with the judges. A number of hours later, UFC president Dana White instructed Kevin Iole of keviniole.com the promotion will lower Severino, who additionally is perhaps listening to from the Nevada State Athletic Fee:
“These have been two up-and-coming undefeated fighters,” White mentioned. “In case you get pissed off and wish out of the battle, there are many methods to do it, however the worst factor u can do is chew your opponent. Now, you get lower and lose the most important alternative of your life. To not point out, he’s going to have actual issues with the NSAC.”
The ESPN sales space was initially confused why Severino did not obtain a warning quite than instant disqualification, desirous to understand how Tognoni might be so certain the 20-year-old deliberately bit down. A shot of Lima’s arm, full with one of the clear chew marks you’ll ever see, ended that confusion.
The loss is the primary of Severino’s skilled MMA profession, and comes proper after breaking by way of to the UFC through “Dana White’s Contender Collection.” Earlier than that, all of his fights had are available his native Brazil, most not too long ago with the Jungle Battle Championship.
Severino had a powerful begin earlier than the chew, outlanding Lima 36-30 in important strikes and touchdown 5 out of 9 takedowns with three whole minutes of management.
The battle was additionally Lima’s UFC debut, as he additionally notched a win on DWCS in October. He celebrated it like another win, leaping into his coach’s arm earlier than talking with ESPN:
“I used to be in a position to hit him actually onerous, however then he bit me once I was attempting to take him down. I used to be going to proceed to wreck him, proceed to the touch him and end the battle, however as you noticed, that is why I yelled. He bit me.”
That chew wound up being profitable for Lima, as his supervisor instructed MMA Preventing’s Guilherme Cruz that White mentioned he’ll award Lima the primary ever “I Received F***ing Bit Bonus.”
Lima apparently determined to honor the event with a tattoo:
You really by no means know the place an evening goes to go within the UFC.