{"id":270312,"date":"2023-02-12T02:18:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T03:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=270312"},"modified":"2023-02-12T15:00:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T15:00:03","slug":"fighters-bizarre-reaction-to-nasty-groin-kick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=270312","title":{"rendered":"Fighter's bizarre reaction to nasty groin kick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sydney brawler Joshua \ufeffCuliabo stunned UFC 284<\/a> by somehow fighting back from a nasty kick to the groin to beat Melsik Baghdasaryan.<\/p>\n

It was late in the first round of their bout in Perth when a \ufeffBaghdasaryan round kick landed in the worst area for Culiabo.<\/p>\n

The Aussie fighter dropped to the canvas immediately, clutching at his private parts \ufeffas the referee ordered a halt to the bout and Baghdasaryan back to his corner.<\/p>\n

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Fighters are allowed five minutes to recover from an illegal shot, but Culiabo only took two and was then back on his feet.<\/p>\n

It was minutes later, in the second round, when he stunned \ufeffBaghdasaryan by pulling him to the canvas and choking him out to force a stoppage.<\/p>\n

\"Joshua<\/p>\n

Afterwards, the plucky Australian was asked about the unfortunate incident involving his crowdn jewels.<\/p>\n

"Pretty bad. You know? It's like one of those ones where you just gotta figure out if they're still there," Culiabo said in the octagon.<\/p>\n

"You know what I mean? Yeah, like I said, like if you've ever been hit in the nuts before and it feels like they're up\u2026 That's a game we played when we grew up, where you get smacked in the nuts and it sort of feels like it comes up."<\/p>\n

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When the topic of conversation moved on to Culiabo's win, he couldn't help but fire up the large Perth crowd.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"First of all, I've always wanted to do this – Aussie, Aussie, Aussie," he yelled as the fans went wild.<\/p>\n

"This is a dream come true. Perth, thankyou for having me. And the UFC coming down, that was phenomenal."<\/p>\n

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