Visiting athletes having really bad nights in Boston is nothing new, a fact to which the two dozen combined Celtics and Bruins championship banners hanging from the rafters of TD Garden forever attest.
But the evening Volkan Oezdemir experienced on Jan. 20 at UFC 220 was on an altogether different level than those experienced by, say, the Lakers or Canadiens.
Oezdemir lost to light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier in the co-feature bout at TD Garden via second-round TKO. But he also came away from the evening with not just a broken orbital bone, but a staph infection — in three different places.