The American Top Team product beat Patricio Freire to win the Bellator featherweight title Friday night at Bellator 145 with a badly broken left hand, according to an X-ray photo Straus put on Instagram on Monday afternoon. Straus defeated "Pitbull" via unanimous decision to win the belt for the second time.
Straus (24-6) wrote on the post that he broke the hand in the first round. It didn't stop him from dropping Freire with it in the third. The Cincinnati native didn't stop throwing punches with it at all throughout the fight.
"I'm being told this is one of the worst breaks some doctors have ever seen," Straus wrote.