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.