UFC 262: Shane Burgos suffers bizarre delayed knockout several seconds after Edson Barboza punch
- ‘Hurricane’ gets hit then eventually staggers backwards and collapses in third round of main card opener
- ‘I’ve seen that with a liver shot where a guy gets hit, then a couple seconds go, but not like that with a punch,’ says cageside commentator Joe Rogan
Shane Burgos suffered a bizarre delayed knockout by Edson Barboza in a featherweight barnburner to open up Saturday night’s UFC 262 main card.
After two back-and-forth, violent rounds, the 30-year-old American “Hurricane” (13-3) slipped to a second-straight defeat when he staggered backwards and collapsed to the canvas several seconds after eating a punch right on the button from Barboza (22-9) in Houston, Texas.
The 35-year-old Brazilian went in to land a couple more hesitant shots on the ground but the referee rushed over and stepped in at 1:16 of the third round.
“It’s funny because I asked my coach, ‘Why I hit him?’ Because he’s going down a little bit,” Barboza told Joe Rogan in his post-fight interview in the Octagon at the Toyota Centre.
“I was like, ‘OK, let’s go finish the fight’,” Barboza added. “But hey, I’m very happy.”