The scariest slam at UFC Edmonton didn’t happen in the Octagon. Viral footage from Rogers Place shows an on-duty police officer picking up a spectator and slamming him to the floor during a crowd brawl, leaving the man unconscious before cuffs ever came out.
The fight in the stands broke out after Saturday’s co-main event, according to a widely shared r/MMA thread that also placed Edmonton police in the middle of it. The clip circulated on X through the account @JustBins, and Bloody Elbow broke down what happens frame by frame. Officers poured into the section to separate the crowd. One pulled out his taser. Before that went anywhere, a second officer grabbed the fan, lifted him, and drove him into the ground. BJJDOC also reported that an officer slammed someone while trying to break up the scuffle.
The part that makes the video hard to watch comes after the impact. The man is plainly out, and the officer keeps yelling at him to roll onto his stomach, an order he had no way of following. The video cuts off with the officer setting up to handcuff him while he’s still motionless on the floor.
The sources don’t say whether anyone was arrested or charged, and they don’t say what condition the fan was in afterward.
A violent night on both sides of the cage
Inside the cage, the card was already a knockout parade. Mike Malott finished Joaquin Buckley with a knee in the main event, which earned him a $100,000 performance bonus in front of the Canadian crowd. Six fighters on the undercard also won by knockout. That’s the backdrop Bloody Elbow had in mind when it joked that the officer might be a late entry for Knockout of the Night.
Fans online split hard on the clip. Some treated it like a highlight. “One hell of a suplex by that cop,” one wrote, and another cracked, “Get him on the Contender Series.” A third asked, “Was that a fighter in disguise? Someone call Dana White.”
A lot of people weren’t laughing. “Super risky way to take someone down. Cops need more training,” one fan wrote. Another called it “excessive force from the cop,” and a third was blunter, calling the slam “Completely unnecessary.”
My take is simple. The fans who threw hands in the stands were wrong, and breaking that up was the officers’ job. What happened after the slam is a different story. Fighters train for years to land on their backs safely, and a referee steps in the moment a guy’s eyes go blank. A man who’s out cold on concrete needs someone checking on him. Screaming at him to roll over helps nobody. People are cracking Contender Series jokes, but the thing that should stick from Edmonton is Malott’s knee on Buckley, and this clip is pushing it aside.
