Corey Hill -- the UFC fighter whose lower leg was brutally and cleanly broken in a match Wednesday night -- is out of surgery to repair the break, and he's going to be out of commission for up to a year and a half.

Hill's trainer told TMZ last night Corey suffered a compound fracture -- ya think? -- and UFC.com reports he's with his fam at Cape Fear Valley Med Center in NC and in "good spirits" after suffering the horrible injury.

Not that you can bear to see this again, but ...