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Old-school fight fans may remember Frank Trigg’s 2007 war against Robbie Lawler under the Icon Sport banner (Pictured above).<\/p>\n

Trigg was defending his middleweight championship, when he was put to sleep with a brutal uppercut in the 4th round.<\/p>\n

While the knockout was a particularly brutal one, what many fans didn’t know was that the KO nearly killed Trigg.<\/p>\n

He explained recently on Submission Radio<\/a> that he was taking a refereeing class under ‘Big’ John McCarthy, when McCarthy used Trigg’s fight against Lawler as an example, and not a good one.<\/p>\n

“He hits play right, and it’s a blank screen. I don\u2019t see it\u2019s my fight. It\u2019s a blank screen. Boom. It’s my fight that comes on, I\u2019m watching it. I’m like ‘very funny John. That’s very funny.’ He says ‘no, watch this fight.’ So now I\u2019m watching it for the first time as a referee. I\u2019m watching it for a first time as somebody that protects the fighters life. I go back and I look at my medical records after, I\u2019m done watching the fight with Big John McCarthy. I go back and see that fight. I had like 500 millilitres of blood in my lungs. I had aspirated that much blood, I swallowed that much blood, inhaled that much blood in that time. Mind you if your lungs get full of blood, you can\u2019t get oxygen to your body, so I\u2019m starting to slow down.<\/p>\n

“So you see me, so my thought process in the fight in the fourth round is; I\u2019m extremely tired. I told Randy Couture who’s in my corner and John Louis who was also in my corner, I said ‘look guys, if this fight doesn\u2019t end in the fourth, I don\u2019t know if I can make it to the fifth. I\u2019m falling apart out here.’ [They respond] like ‘don\u2019t worry about it. Go get it, go get it. It\u2019s great, it\u2019s great. Go get it.'”<\/p>\n

“Okay. So in the middle of the round I go ‘I need a break. I need to take a tough 10 to 15 seconds out to catch my breath.’ I put myself in the corner and that\u2019s when Robbie hits me. I am exhausted. In my head I have my hands up, I\u2019m protecting my face, I\u2019m completely fine. I watch the film, my hands are down by my hips, I take three straight shots to the head. When he hit the uppercut at the end, I didn\u2019t even feel it. I\u2019m out. I\u2019m already out.”<\/p>\n

“He stripped my vision in my left eye for like eight or nine months after that fight because he hit me with my eye open. I couldn\u2019t see it anything. I had no peripheral vision. And the basis of what that fight did – I\u2019ve talked to a couple of people, I\u2019ve talked to Big John, I\u2019ve had my doctors now look at the medical records and do all that stuff – That fight nearly killed me. If I’d gone into the fifth round I probably would have died in the stretcher on the way to the hospital.”<\/p>\n

“So that fight, when everyone goes ‘what\u2019s your toughest fight?’ The Lawler fight. ‘What\u2019s the one fight that you regret doing?’ The Lawler fight. “What\u2019s the one fight that you wish you could have done differently?” The Lawler fight. ‘Cause that fight changed me for the rest of my career and probably for the rest of my life. It\u2019s fights like that, that cause dementia and concussion problems later in life, and give you Parkinsons, and things like that, that boxers are getting. It’s going through a bunch of fights like that, that causes it. That causes that problem. “<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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