![]() ![]() The UFC said Weidman was stabilized and will have surgery on Sunday. The 36-year-old Weidman (15-6) was greeted with cheers by the 15,000 or so fans inside the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville as he was taken out of the arena and to a hospital. I thought it was a slap, but I didn’t feel the slap on my calf, so I was like, that’s gotta be his bone," Hall said at his post-fight news conference about checking Weidman's kick. Two replays were shown of the strike but not before the announcers warned viewers what would happen. The broadcast never cut back to Weidman until his right leg was in a compression boot and he was being lifted off the mat on a stretcher and carried out of the octagon. He’s truly one of the best," Hall said after being awarded the TKO victory due to injury after the 17-second bout. I’ll be good to make 185."I got nothing but respect for Chris Weidman. Sometime around that time period, I’ll be good to go,” he said of his ideal return date. “I got down to 210 (pounds) for this grappling event and my weight’s not flying back up again, so I’ll be good. “I was saying June, but I’m thinking maybe International Fight Week. ![]() Weidman has been out of competitive action since the injury but recently made his return to the grappling mats for an exhibition grappling match with British judoka Owen Livesey, which he said was a dress rehearsal for a UFC comeback he expects to take place this summer. This is not meant for human beings to deal with,” he said. Give me something quick, put me to sleep, get me on painkillers, knock me out. I kept begging them to give me pain pills. The pain was the worst thing I could ever imagine. And the pain… I can’t even explain the pain. “Now they’re moving my leg around, they’re trying to hold it into place as they get me on a stretcher and all this crap, and the bones are moving around. He added that the pain he felt as soon as the nerve-endings communicated the injury to his brain was like something he’d never experienced before. It was mind-effing, you know? That’s crazy.” “The only time I’ve really seen it was with Anderson Silva, so all of a sudden it’s my leg. “When my leg broke, when I kicked Uriah Hall and I fall back and my leg’s not there anymore - which I didn’t realise because I was like ‘Man, there’s no way Uriah Hall takes any more of those kicks’ - as I go down the first time I spotted my leg with my eyes the first thing I that went through my mind was, ’This is my leg! That’s exactly what Anderson Silva’s leg looked like! This is weird! That’s my leg! This is f*cking crazy!’” he said on the UFC Unfiltered podcast, as noted by Fighters Only. The irony, if that is the correct word to use, was notable: it was Weidman against whom Anderson Silva had suffered the exact same injury via the exact same technique a little over eight years prior.Īnd in the slow-motion realisation of what had happened, Weidman said that this was among his first thoughts - before the mind-bending pain took hold. It was just seconds into the first round of an April 2021 fight with Uriah Hall when Weidman through a low kick which shattered his lower leg and collapsed him to the canvas in agony. In the 30-year history of the UFC, just a handful of serious leg breaks have occurred in the Octagon - but Chris Weidman’s was certainly among the most serious. ![]()
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