God damn no wonder he couldn't continue
Amir Mansour suffered ripped tongue that required 36 stitches, fractured jaw in TKO loss to Dominic Breazeale
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Here in his own words on social media, Mansour explains with graphic detail the mouth injury he picked up:
“I know that many of you are wondering what happened. Around the second round, I got hit with my tongue positioned between my teeth. My mouth-piece is fitted for my upper teeth only. I bit my damn tongue almost completely in half. So then my tongue swelled up so bad, I literally couldn’t breathe, not to mention [I was] swallowing so much blood. [I had been] battling a cold, so breathing through my nose wasn’t working. I was suffocating – literally.”
Later yesterday [Sunday] Mansour confirmed, after a five hour stay in hospital, that he indeed had a fractured jaw and his tongue needed 36 stitches. It does seem gravely unfair, then, to call a fighter who suffered so much pain and injury, a quitter.