Kevin Holland transported to hospital after suffering broken hand in loss to Stephen ‘Wonderboy’ Thompson

Kevin Holland ended his night at UFC Orlando with a trip to a local hospital.

Stephen Thompson, the always exciting welterweight lost to him in an entertaining main event fight. Thompson was then forced to seek medical attention after sustaining a fractured hand in his first round.

According to his manager Oren Hodak, the injury occurred in the first round, which is when Holland blasted Thompson with a devastating right hand that wobbled the two-time UFC title challenger.

Unfortunately, it appears it was somewhere around that time that Holland broke his hand throwing another punch, which left him compromised for the remainder of the fight.

“Kevin Holland broke his right hand landing a cross in the first round,” Hodak wrote on Twitter. The hand is extremely swollen. Being transported to the hospital. Congrats to Stephen ‘Wonderboy’ Thompson and team.”

Despite the damage done, Holland continued trading strikes with Thompson over the next three rounds, but after he sat down in his corner at the end of the fourth, it was evident that he had absorbed a lot of punishment.

Holland’s coaches decided to stop the fight because Holland’s hand was still hurting. “Wonderboy”, however, won the fourth round TKO. Holland immediately removed his gloves to treat the injury that had afflicted him for most of the contest’s four rounds.

It will ultimately go down as Holland’s second straight loss after he fell to Khamzat Chimaev in a last-minute fight that came together just 24 hours before UFC 279 was scheduled to take place. The loss to Thompson was just the first at welterweight for Holland, however, with the fight against Chimaev taking place at a catchweight.

Source: https://www.mmafighting.com/2022/12/4/23492258/kevin-holland-transported-hospital-after-suffering-broken-hand-in-loss-to-stephen-wonderboy-thompson?rand=96749