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Video: Fighter suffers bizarre delayed KO during bare-knuckle boxing match

Many of us were left scratching our heads when Shane Burgos suffered a delayed knockout loss to Edson Barboza at UFC 262 in May. You’ll likely have the same reaction when you see this clip of a bare-knuckle boxing match under Mahatch FC.

According to MMA Fighting, the fight happened back on June 20th in Ukraine, but only seemed to recently make the rounds online. As you’ll see in the video below, Anatoly “TT” Savenko and Malysh “Tolik” Anatoliy had exchanged punches when the latter suddenly collapsed about six seconds after throwing a two-punch combo.

MMA Fighting later got in touch with Parimatch, which initially stated that Anatoliy blamed the odd occurrence on “an issue with his blood sugar levels.