FanHouse Fight For The Troops

At the UFC's Fight for the Troops, lightweight Corey Hill suffered one of the most gruesome injuries in the history of the sport, landing a kick only to have his leg snap like a twig.

The UFC doesn't have a fighters' union or a comprehensive health plan, and there has been concern among many fans that Hill wouldn't be taken care of. But UFC President Dana White said Hill won't be stuck with medical bills.

In an interview on ESPN Radio 1100 in Las Vegas (via Steve Cofield), White said this:

"Corey Hill is still in the hospital. He had surgery, they put a plate in his leg. We paid for all that. We covered all those expenses. He'll go into rehab, we'll pay for that too."

Hill is going to have a long, painful road to recovery ahead of him, and the injury is so severe that he probably won't fight at all in 2009. I hope we see him back in the Octagon in 2010 -- and I hope this terrible injury doesn't wreck him financially.

Listen to the audio of White's comments below.

Josh Koscheck delivered a pair of devastating knockout punches to beat Yoshiyuki Yoshida tonight at the UFC Fight for the Troops in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Koscheck was fighting just six and a half weeks after his hard-fought loss to Thiago Alves at UFC 90. That night he struggled in the stand-up game, but tonight he was outstanding on his feet, brutalizing Yoshida with his hands to win an easy first-round knockout. It was a very good showing for Koscheck, one of the Top 5 welterweights in the world.

The Fight for the Troops was a special event put on by the UFC to benefit the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, which supports the thousands of Americans who have suffered traumatic brain injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan. Throughout the event, fighters and celebrities appeared to solicit donations for the cause.

UPDATE: Fight for the Troops: Good Show, Good Cause, Nasty Endings for Yoshida, Hill, Al-Hassan

Full undercard results are below.

Josh Koscheck and Yoshiyuki Yoshida, who will meet in the main event of Wednesday night's UFC Fight for the Troops, both think they deserve to be talked about in the welterweight title picture:

"If I get to win this fight, of course, I think it's going to put me in line to be considered to fight the welterweight champion," Yoshida said.

Added Koscheck, "I'm trying to get back on the winning track and get my name back up there as being mentioned as the No. 1 contender in this weight class."

The latest edition of ESPN's MMA Live:

Among the topics discussed are WEC 37, the upcoming Fight for the Troops (which Franklin McNeil suggests could be the last UFC appearance for Josh Koscheck), and the reports that Chuck Liddell will fight Randy Couture in Germany. McNeill says those reports are simply false, and the two will not be fighting each other a fourth time. He adds that Liddell will not be moving up to heavyweight.