Jeff Monson heard a pop in his arm and knew that something had gone terribly wrong.
Trapped in a ring, surrounded by the likes of current WBO, IBF, and WBA champion Sergey Kovalev, actor Sergey Badyuk, and a host of other Russian celebrities, the former ADCC champion tapped to an arm-bar submission in a matter of 30 seconds. It was a premature end to a fight that was billed as the main event of the evening.
Monson knew he had been tricked. This was supposed to be an exhibition match - purely entertainment value because of the injury he had sustained weeks earlier - but his opponent never got the message.