I wish his family well if you guys are watching. “I feel so bad for him,” Hall said in his post-fight interview. Weidman has been admitted to a local hospital and will have surgery on Sunday, the UFC said on the pay-per-view broadcast. Referee Herb Dean stopped the fight, and Weidman was eventually stretchered out of the octagon at Vystar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla. ![]() The Long Island native swiftly kicked opponent Uriah Hall right below his knee in the opening seconds of their middleweight bout at UFC 261 and immediately fell to the mat in agony after it appeared the lower portion of his right leg snapped. UFC 261 main event ends with stunning knockoutĬhris Weidman suffered a horrific leg injury on the first kick of his UFC fight on Saturday night. UFC star’s wife heartbroken after leg snaps in ‘horrible’ scene Gruesome UFC injury was just as bad as it looked I cannot deal with this.’ This is not meant for human beings to deal with.What it was like covering one of the wildest nights in UFC history: ‘Absolutely in tears’ 15 Hall was devastated with Weidman’s injury Getty 15 He had to be carried from the Octagon on a stretcher Conor McGregor vs Dustin Poirier 3 This will be the most famous entry on this list by a. I kept begging them to give me pain pills: ‘Give me something quick. The Long Island native swiftly kicked opponent Uriah Hall right below his knee in the. The pain was the worst thing I could ever imagine. Chris Weidman suffered a horrific leg injury on the first kick of his UFC fight on Saturday night. And the pain – I can’t even explain the pain. 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. And I know this is going to suck and here comes – and as soon as I felt the pain kick in I was just begging people ‘Please!’ “I just remembered Anderson Silva screaming in pain, like someone was murdering him. “As soon as I broke my leg and I saw it, I go, ‘Holy crap!’ I saw the bones and everything,” Weidman said. He recalls the horrific night, and all he could think of was when Anderson Silva was lying on the ground when he broke his leg in their title-fight rematch at UFC 168. I’ll be good to make 185 now.” RelatedĬhris Weidman wants to make title run upon UFC return: 'I'm trying to shock the world again' 'I'm coming back baby!' Watch Chris Weidman test out his leg after brutal injury Recovering from his own leg break, Chris Weidman offers heartfelt apology to Anderson Silvaįor Weidman, going through this painful experience has him intent on defying the odds in a comeback. I got down to 210 for this grappling event and my weight’s not flying back up again, so I’ll be good. Sometime around that time period, I’ll be good to go (at) 185. T here was a gruesome ending to the Chris Weidman vs Uriah Hall fight at UFC 261, as the former broke his leg while kicking his opponent. “I was saying June, but I’m thinking maybe International Fight Week. McGregors intense training workout: Im an animal. “I think in the summer – sometime in the summer,” Weidman said. The 38-year-old got his first taste of action since his injury when he lost a decision to Owen Livesey in a grappling match at Polaris 23 earlier this month and is eyeing a summer octagon comeback. Weidman will return to his original weight class and doesn’t see himself having any issues making the middleweight mark. I’m just doing physical therapy and still working on that.” But they’re saying that is just based on the quad and the calf need to get a little bit stronger still. ![]() When I’m up on my toes and stuff like that and I start bouncing, I get like a little pain on the shin and stuff. But you know what? My goal is to kick as hard as I possibly can, so maybe it does happen. A compound fracture is not going to be happening. ![]() For me to break my bone and then through the rod, I don’t think that’s going to happen. “I got a titanium rod through the middle of my shin bone – right through the whole (bone), from the top of my knee all the way down to the low part of my ankle to the bottom of the tibia,” Weidman said on UFC Unfiltered. He since has gone through a grueling process to get back on his feet, and the former UFC middleweight champion is comfortable to start kicking in fights again soon.
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