Here’s the great thing about MMA: On a night that involved sanctioned bare-knuckle fighting , there were weirder things going on. Like the one that took place at Imortal FC 9 in Maranhao, Brazil, in a flyweight bout between Joao Elias and Walter Neto Martins . After the referee intervened and paused the action in the first round to call for a doctor’s check, it took only a brief turn of his back before the fighters went back at it. The ref got back between the two fighters once he realized what was going on, but that wasn’t enough to stop them from throwing hands – or full-on head kicks (via Twitter ): The altercation only stopped when multiple people entered the cage. According to MMAFighting.com ‘s Guilherme Cruz, the bout was ruled, unsurprisingly, a no-contest
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