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#4. Thiago Santos
Leg injuries don't need to be visabally disturbing to be gruesome. When champion-hopeful Thiago Santos, at the largest stage of his career, took on Jon Jones, he began taking on water early on in the second round.
After 'Marreta' whiffed on a leg kick, his base leg buckled. With mobility severely impaired, everyone in attendance could only assume that he tore a ligament, which turned out to be quite the understatement. After five hard-fought rounds, the Brazilian fell short on two of the three judges' scorecards in a split-decision loss.
ACL, MCL, LCL, miniscus — Santos essentially tore anything that gave him the luxury of stability in his left leg. Despite the severity of this, he used his left leg as a weapon and used it well. Flinging his damaged leg like a pool noodle, the Brazilian found his mark time and time again. Though he didn't take the belt, he went five-rounds against one of the best fighters in the world and had a damaged leg for the majority of it, which is a win in and of itself.
#3. Sean O'Malley
The 'Suga' show is running full steam ahead, but it has been derailed once in the past. The controversy over this loss gives O'Malley some breathing room to joke about his "undefeated" record, but it's officially in the books as a TKO loss and remains the only blemish on his record to date.
In another example of drop foot in MMA, Marlon Vera landed a beautiful leg kick on 'Suga'. The term "drop foot" proved to be self explanatory following a landed low kick; O'Malley lost the ability to lift his foot and the subsequent stumbles rendered him a sitting duck.
'Chito' Vera is one of the best fighters in the bantamweight division. If an opponent is anything short of 100% ready and healthy against him, then it'll be a rough night in the office for them. O'Malley eventually fell to the mat and the stoppage came after a series of bludgeoning elbow strikes landed.
