Some emergent video footage featuring Magomed Ankalaev is hinting that there may have been an injury he was dealing with leading into his Alex Pereira rematch.
This was posted by X user @leoguimaraesmma, who is a sports journalist, with the footage later being shared to X account @ChampRDS. The video in question features a medical professional of some persuasion tending to Ankalaev and nursing an area along his rib cage. The video was said to have been recorded approximately twenty days before fight time.
The brutality of the UFC 320 main event finish resonates even more now if Big Ank’s pre-fight injuries were in fact in that area of his body.