There’s bad injury luck and then there’s what happened to Christos Giagos while the UFC lightweight was doing some work around the house.
Giagos announced on Monday that he has withdrawn from a proposed UFC Fight Night 209 bout against Benoit St. Denis after severing his pinky on a broken toilet. It’s currently unknown if St. Denis will receive a replacement opponent on the Sept. 3 card.
“It kills me writing this so I’ll keep it short,” Giagos wrote on Instagram. “I was getting some cleaning done and while wiping down a piece of my grill in the trash my hand hit a broken porcelain toilet and gashed my hand open, cutting a tendon in my pinky.
“Unfortunately, due to the severity of the injury I had to pull out of my upcoming fight in Paris. I was praying the damage wasn’t bad so I could still take the fight, but that wasn’t the case.
“I went to a hand specialist today to check the damage and had to undergo a minor surgery to reattach my pinky tendon. My focus is to get healed up as fast as possible. As much as this pains me, the only thing I have control over is how quickly I get back.”
Giagos was hoping to end a two-bout skid after suffering back-to-back losses at the hands of Thiago Moises and Arman Tsarukyan in his last two promotional appearances. “The Spartan” is 5-6 over the course of two UFC stints.
UFC Fight Night 209 takes place at Accor Arena in Paris and is headlined by a heavyweight tilt pitting Ciryl Gane against TaiTuivasa.
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