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Giagos announced on Monday that he has withdrawn from a proposed UFC Fight Night 209 bout against Benoit St. Denis after severing his pinky on a broken toilet.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.