It was a gruesome sight to see. UFC welterweight Chris Lytle on the mat, trapped against the chain link fence, a pool of blood expanding from beneath his head.
No cut in recent memory bled like the one Lytle sustained against Josh Koscheck at UFC 86. It was a sight sponsors cringe at, and for Lytle, the worst-case scenario – another night trapped under a world-class wrestler.
Rest assured, though, that Lytle is okay. MMAWeekly.com caught up with him back in his home of New Palestine, Ind., where he still works as a full-time firefighter.
“I’m feeling fine, it was just a nasty cut,” he said. “I’ve got my stitches and I’m feeling fine.”
Even as he was stood up in the final minute of the third round, his face dyed the color of “Hellboy,” Lytle was game.
“I could see everything and I was trying to hit him, but he was moving a lot,” he continued. “I thought it was my one chance, I better get going. He did a good job of moving away.”
It’s not the first time a cut has drastically altered the course of his fight. Lytle’s bout with Thiago Alves at UFC 78 was stopped after the second round due to a cut over his eye. That one bled badly as well. A nine-year veteran of MMA and boxing, Lytle has his fair share of scar tissue around his eyes.
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