UFC on FOX 13: Joe Riggs Nearly Jacks Up His Neck Trying to Slam Ben Saunders

Joe Riggs may want to move to Connecticut and get in to something safe like insurance. The man seems to have a knack for seriously messing himself up. A few months ago he accidentally shot himself in the thigh and hand and now in the Octagon Saturday night the man nearly breaks his neck.

He later said he felt like he blew out a disc in his neck.

via Reddit

This is what he had to say to FOX Sports about what was going through his head when he tapped out (via MMA Junkie):

"When I picked him up, I wanted to spike him. When you try to spike someone, your head is going to be at the point of the spike, and my neck, something got caught weird, because my left arm went numb. I gave it a couple of seconds to see if it came back, but it didn't come back. So I just tapped out, because I thought I'd blew out my disc in my neck...."

I'm going to guess that since he tweeted this out sometime around midnight (East Coast) he's not too bad off:

Nobody go to Paz cantina. Thank everyone for your support. I'll be back to on in a few to explain. But that's a place run by terds.
— JOE RIGGS (@DIESELRIGGSMMA) December 14, 2014

Either that or the doctor prescribed tequila as a pain killer.

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