The Irishman broke his leg while fighting Dustin Poirier in UFC 264 on Saturday. The bout was stopped between the first and second rounds after McGregor’s left leg appeared to buckle as he traded punches with Poirier toward the end of the first round. Poirier was awarded a TKO victory.

At UFC 261 this past Saturday, Chris Weidman suffered one of the most traumatic injuries in UFC history when his leg snapped while throwing a kick in his fight with Uriah Hall. At the conclusion of the event, the UFC confirmed that Weidman had been admitted to the hospital and would undergo surgery on Sunday morning.

As a thrilling first five-minute frame drew to a close, both fighters were still trying to land as McGregor stumbled backwards, trapping his foot under himself and breaking his leg.

Chris Weidman vs Uriah Hall – UFC 261: April 2021 A perfect step-out check from Hall a mere 17 seconds into the first round shattered Weidman’s right tibia and fibula. Referee Herb Dean immediately waved off the fight when Weidman collapsed after attempting to put weight on his rear leg.

Former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman admitted that having a leg amputation is still a possibility as he recovers from his injury. So let’s just keep praying that I get full blood supply back,” Weidman said. “That’s exactly what happened to my thumb.

Despite one misconception, there is no evidence that a bone that breaks will heal to be stronger than it was before. When a bone fractures, it begins the healing process by forming a callus at the fracture site, where calcium is deposited to aid rebuilding, said Dr.

Weidman (15-6 MMA, 11-6 UFC) threw a right kick in the opening seconds of his UFC 261 fight against Uriah Hall. Hall lifted his left leg to check the kick, and Weidman’s leg snapped instantly. He fell to the canvas in agony just 15 seconds into the fight.

37 years (June 17, 1984)
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The horrific injury occurred in essentially the first exchange of the fight as Weidman threw a kick at his opponent Uriah Hall, which then resulted in his leg snapping in a violent manner.

An attempted teep kick to Poirier’s stomach as where the leg break happened, says Kavanagh. “He throws a leg-kick, he moves away, and then he threw a teep, and that was one of the techniques we definitely wanted to employ in this fight,” Kavanagh said in an interview with UFC reporter Laura Sanko.

McGregor suffered a nasty leg break in his defeat to Dustin Poirier at UFC 264 last month. He’s on the mend after undergoing surgery and claims to be ‘improving rapidly’ ahead of his Octagon comeback in 2022. Asked when he will fight again, he replied: “2022. I’m improving rapidly!

Here are 10 of the worst bone fractures you could get.

• Skull.
• Wrist.
• Hip.
• Rib.
• Ankle.
• Pelvis. A fracture in the pelvis can be life-threatening, just like hip fractures.
• Tailbone. A tailbone fracture can make life difficult, and there is no way to hold the fractured tailbone in place.
• Elbow. A broken elbow is very painful.

Weidman, 36, is just the third fighter in UFC history to suffer a broken leg due to a checked kick. The late Corey Hill and UFC legend Anderson Silva are the others. Silva’s leg break happened against Weidman at UFC 168 in December 2013.

In a shocking turn of events, former UFC middleweight Chris Weidman suffered the same injury of his two-time opponent Anderson Silva when he broke his leg on a kick checked by Uriah Hall at UFC 261. Weidman’s foot folded gruesomely around Hall’s shin, and he dropped to the mat as he planted on his right foot.

The terrible irony here is Weidman was the man in the octagon when Anderson Silva suffered a horror leg break in 2013. Weidman was the first man to defeat Silva and Hall was the last in his legendary UFC career.

Uriah Hall exacted revenge on Chris Weidman on Saturday in their UFC 261 rematch – but not how he want. After losing the first fight in September 2010, Hall (17-9 MMA, 10-7 UFC) came out on the right end of the rematch.