![]() ![]() “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. 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. “I was saying June, but I’m thinking maybe International Fight Week. “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. He was stretchered out and quickly underwent emergency surgery. Weidman (15-6 MMA, 11-6 UFC) snapped his right leg on the first kick he threw against Uriah Hall at UFC 261. However it plays out, we'll be ready.Chris Weidman is ready to return after enduring a horrific leg break in April 2021. "I'm in the rank, top nine right now, I don't know where I go after this, maybe eight, the goal is just to get to Izzy. Obviously I got the win on paper…whoever the UFC is going to line up, my goal is the same, I'm trying to become champ and we gotta play the game," Hall said. "It was a very important fight coming into this because he was the first guy to beat me. ![]() He is also the first fighter in UFC history to win without throwing a single strike in a fight. Hall is the closest he has been to the UFC middleweight title picture since making his UFC debut in 2013. The 36-year-old Hall continued his late-career surge by winning his fourth straight and fifth in his last six bouts, which included a TKO of Silva last October. "It's the sucky part of this sport, it's the hurt business but I have nothing bad to say about him. "I wanted to put on a great performance but I just wish him and his family well," Hall said. It's just crazy how we ended up here again." He was the first one to defeat Anderson, I was the last. I didn't know what fear was and during that time we went different paths. It is a crazy story that he was the first man I fought that defeated me and introduced me to fear. "I got nothing but respect for Chris Weidman," Hall said. In addition, Weidman's injury took place in the fight immediately after light heavyweight Jimmy Crute suffered a TKO loss to Anthony Smith following a different leg injury that forced the cageside doctor to rule Crute couldn't continue. The sad irony of the situation is that Weidman (15-6) scored a similar victory over Anderson Silva in their 2013 middleweight title rematch that left the former champion sidelined for a full year. But the impact of the injury, which saw Weidman's tibia break through the skin, brought a hush over the crowd and an emotional reaction from a stunned Hall. The 185-pound rematch was instantly called off and ruled a TKO for Hall (17-9) just 17 seconds into the bout inside VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena. In one of the most gruesome injuries in UFC history, Uriah Hall checked a kick from Chris Weidman that shattered the right leg of the former middleweight champion on Saturday at UFC 261 in Jacksonville, Florida. ![]()
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