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Referee chokes out fighter!

Unusual scenes at MMA event in Crimea, where referee Armen Ananyan was forced to choke out Renat Lyatifov after the fight has been stopped in a first round.

In a 10th second of  round 1, Croatian fighter Karlo Caput throw a hard right hook and sent Lyatifov on the ground. Referee Armen Ananyan jumped in and stopped the fight, but the Lyatifov, clearly in knock down, started to fight with him. In a self-defence, referee had to put him in a standing guillotine choke, until member of his team came to the cage.