This video’s YouTube description fills you in on the details:

must watch arm breaks

Uh, okay, maybe it doesn’t, but you must watch this guy’s arm break has he gets trapped in a kimura, tries to fight his way out of it and ends up with one of Stretch Armstrong’s bendy arms.

The best parts (besides the bone snapping and the horrible “Bo Jackson hitting a home run” noise it makes) has to be the reaction of the fighters. The guy doing the snapping reacts like a normal person might — by stopping, asking if the guy he just debilitated is okay and making OH GOD I BROKE HIS ARM I THINK faces at the referee. The guy with the jelly limb just kinda kneels there in acceptance, overcome by some combination of shock and adrenaline. I guess I’m not expecting him to scream NOOOO and roll around holding his arm or anything, but damn.

Whatever he’s thinking at this moment, I hope it includes the phrase, “Please God, don’t ever let my elbow make comic book action noises again”.

[h/t to Jessica/Lobster Mobster by way of MiddleEasy]

When commenter cum laude Upstate Underdog sent in this blog post with the headline, “Angels Promotion ‘Steal 3rd’ Begins with 11-Year-Old Breaking his Arm,” I laughed my ass off, mainly because I’m a detriment to humanity. But this kid whose name is inexplicably Beecher Halliday, put me in my place. After breaking his arm on the first few steps to third base from left field, he gets up and keeps running.

Let’s recap: a sixth-grader BREAKS HIS ARM IN FRONT OF 30,000 PEOPLE, only to get up and keep running. Beecher, it’s people like you that add to humanity all of those things that I take away. Video evidence of Beecher’s testicular fortitude awaits you after the jump. I salute you, young sir who stole his name from a porno western movie. Good luck in puberty, not that you’ll need it. Read the rest of this entry »

Now that the Yankee Mutant Ninja Turtles have been eliminated from the World Cup, we can pretend to stop enjoying soccer and focus on the more traditional sports in America. Like MMA. Feder Emilianenko hadn’t lost a fight in ten years or thereabouts, so I guess he was due to just walk into an armbar against, if I can read the card here, Fabricio Werdum, who shocked the world Saturday after forcing the Russian polar bear to tap out. I don’t know if that’s really Fedor’s nickname, but I’m just gonna go with it.

Now there’s a lot of discussion about whether there will be a rematch, but really, I’m done with Fedor. He dodged the UFC and now he doesn’t have much equity to stand on. He’s ugly, uncharismatic, and technically boring. It’s like watching the Tonya Harding sex tape. Watch the full fight after the jump, provided it’s still on the net. Read the rest of this entry »

Milwaukee Bucks big man Andrew Bogut is scheduled to have surgery today after this horrific injury to his right arm. I guess dude went up for a dunk and got his fingers caught in the net and then fell-down-went-boom. It’s just a nasty, nasty chain of events to suffer through, even for a guy that played at Utah.

ASYLUM POLL: Is Bogut’s arm injury the most gruesome ever?

At least one writer is blaming this on some sort of jinx that befalls players selected first overall in the annual drafts; Bogut was taken with said pick in 2005. Of course, I’m tempted to blame this on the officiating. I’m not exactly sure how this is their fault, but I just know it is. Video of the injury is after the jump. Get ready to lose your muffin top. Read the rest of this entry »

Warning: The video after the jump is rather graphic.

John Gettle is a disciple of the famed Frank Mir, so his victory over the unknown William Kowalski at a Las Vegas MMA event last weekend wasn’t a big surprise. What was surprising (and a bit disturbing) was watching Gettle doing so by almost ripping Kowalski’s forearm off.

“I heard the clapper, (the noise that signifies the last 10 seconds of a round) and as soon as I heard it, I thought his arm has to come home with me,” Gettle said. “I have to rip it off or I’m going to fight in the third round. I really don’t like fighting out of the first round, so this third round was just out of the question.” –Las Vegas Sun.

Video’s after the jump. You may want to turn the sound down… Read the rest of this entry »