‘I’m heading right now to find out’ – Ex-UFC star hunting for culprit after footage leaked of brutal knockdown

FORMER UFC prima Kevin Lee has vowed to hunt down the idiosyncratic liable for leaking viral footage of him being knocked down successful sparring.

A clip of the erstwhile interim 155lbs rubric challenger being sent crashing to the canvas during a sparring league astatine Kill Cliff dispersed similar wildfire connected X earlier this week.

Lee, 32, was sent hurtling head-first to the canvas by a vicious close manus from sparring spouse Mirali Huseynov aft throwing a flying knee.

He fell face-first to the mat and was visibly wobbled arsenic helium rapidly returned to his feet with a small assistance from erstwhile UFC welterweight champion Robbie Lawler.

Footage of the incident, somehow, made its mode online, overmuch to the vexation of 'The Motown Phenom'.

He wrote connected X: "IDK who posted that video oregon wherefore but I’m heading close present to find out. I

"I tin lone blasted myself for showing mercy and pulling my genu back.

"But it’s grooming truthful I thought fto maine not blast him.

"I spot I shouldn’t person been playing astir with a feline similar that.

"Since MFs wanna commencement showing sparring imma commencement showing sparrings from present on."

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MMA fans and fighters alike took to X to explicit their disgust astatine the leaking of the sparring footage.

One wrote: "It was lame to station that video."

Another said: "You’re close astir whoever posted that. Check your circle."

And different said: "Yeah this was BS."

One remarked: "Super unprofessional. Posting grooming videos is the eventual p***y move."

Another chimed in: "Never should person been posted."

Huseynov addressed the incidental connected societal media, saying: “It was not my constituent to deed him hard.

"[He threw a] flying genu coming, what should I do?”

He added: “He [Kevin Lee] is my favourite partner, we ever enactment hard."

It was announced past period that Lee - who has had 2 stints with the UFC - has signed with the newly-founded Global Fight League.

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