Oops. Turns out walking backwards in front of a UFC fighter as he makes his entrance to the cage isn’t always easy.
Alex Cacares took a unanimous decision win over Masio Fullen last night to open the Fox Sports 1 preliminaries of UFC on Fox 18: Johnson vs. Bader. Cacares aka “Bruce LeRoy” dominated Fullen with his flashy “real-life Tekken” approach and took every round on all three judges cards. At one point Cacares landed a flying 360 degree spinning kick that actually hurt Fullen.
There was also a notable moment before the fight as a Fox cameraman fell down while taping Cacares’ walk to the cage from the lockerrooms at New Jersey’s Prudential Center. Apparently walking backwards in front of a fighter while operating a camera is not always as easy as they usually make it look.
The snafu went out live as you can see in the video above but a backup cameraman was very close by and the production barely missed a beat.
These things happen in MMA as they say.