First things first: In case anyone needed this cleared up, Matt Mitrione wasn’t actually looking to start off his Bellator 215 main event against Sergei Kharitonov with a fight-ending kick to the groin.
“I’ve never kicked anybody in the nuts before,” Mitrione told host Luke Thomas on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. “So I didn’t really know if it was a low kick or not. I had no idea as far as how it landed.”
But land, it did, ending the heavyweight bout at Connecticut’s Mohegan Sun Arena in a no-contest just 15 seconds in.