Dustin was right, his check fucked Conor's ankle

his coach says his shin might have been compromised actually during training.

that last contact with the elbow most definitely finished breaking it though, yeah that is nasty.

I guess we will never find out but again it doesn’t really matter, he is done and the better fighter moves on to challenge for the title.

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It was a sidestep. One of the best moves in MMA.

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I think we can call this one settled.

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Training injury?
common ankle/knee hurt = ride bikes
ride bike = not running
not running = lose bone density?

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Take steroids and lose even more bone density, just like Silva and Weidman.

Damage was exponential IMO. The first “check” on the knee did the initial damage and the elbow check later was the nail in the coffin.

definitely this !

glad it all got clarified.

Love that you guys are sticking up for Joe Rogans take lol

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Personally I saw this before Rogan jumped in the cage. Dustin did point at his leg and smiled. There is even a picture out there if you look hard enough.

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Shockwave up through the foot pre-fracures conors leg eh…

Just move on and accept that you had a stupid take you developed when you thought it was an ankle injury.

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my take was always a shin cracked, not sure where you get this ankle thing lol

Conor lost buddy, just accept it :slight_smile:

Next up Oliveira vs Dustin and as I called it Dustin is a pretty sizeable fave, such is life

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Not a Connor fan buddy.

But people sticking to the belief that a kick with a foot to a knee caused a miraculous Shockwave through many tiny bones to finally break a much bigger bone is funny to me. Especially when we now how clear evidence of when the initial break actually happens… People are stubborn for all sorts of reasons.

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I honestly can’t tell if you’re a troll or an actual idiot. Habs in your picture makes it even harder to tell.

Hurting your shin via your foot lol. You sound ridiculous.

I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt because nobody is that dumb. Good troll, made me respond more than once.

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From the Conor vs Dustin 3 rewatch thread:

Also, this doctor does great breakdowns of mma injuries and he emphasizes something I didn’t see covered: the break started as he threw the punch, not as he put his foot down after it. He said this is very odd unless there was some significant trauma earlier in the fight.
https://youtu.be/LLfbuTZTynw

see now?

That may have been what compromised his shin but it wasn’t obvious at all. I watched that kick maybe 7-8 times. There is no bulge. He throws a teep with the same leg immediately after that. Then a left hand. His leg and foot all look fine. Im not saying that’s not where the damage took place, but it’s definitely not obvious. His shin never touched Dustin.

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Bas commented on Facebook.

OK, so they asked me what I thought about the fight between Conor and Dustin and if a “check” caused the whole problem.

Poirier said that he checked a kick, and that he felt that something happened, that he even was pointing at McGregor to let him know he hurt himself.
Well, these pics are from the beginning of the fight, the second pic shows Poirier pointing at Conor’s leg, like: “You hurt yourself”.

Conor kicks, Dustin lifts his leg a little bit, just enough for Conor to connect to the side of his knee (in stat of the meaty part just above the knee), which, if you feel yourself on the outside of you knee, there is a thick bone.

Now, on the pic where he kicks you can see his calf muscle hanging down, meaning, it was relaxed, this means, he didn’t flex his leg when he kicked, that means the ankle is completely relaxed and with that power, (because he was kicking hard), a relaxed ankle hitting a thick bone? That could have started the whole thing, it probably got fractured there, then some more kicks, and the fracture gets a little bigger every time.
And at a certain time, the ankle goes: “screw it, I am out”.

Now, NOTHING else happened to the ankle during this fight, so I believe this could have been the only reason, then again, I am not a doctor. I just speak from an experience I had, this one….

One time I was fighting in Japan and the day before the fight I saw a video of a fight where a guy was sitting in half guard, grabbing his opponent’s ankle, fell back and applied an inverted heel hook.
I am looking at Jon Bluming who was with me (the highest Black belt degree holder, 10th degree, in Kyokushin Karate next to Mas Oyama, the founder), and I told him, (since I had not a lot of grappling experience yet), “That’s a cool move, I should remember this”.
Next day I am in the fight and what do you know? I am in that position, so I figured to try it out?
Now because I never did it before, I had no clue what amount of pressure I was putting on this fighters’ knee, I fell back, heard a pop, let go immediately.
The ref heard the pop as well, but the fighter gets up, feels his knee (because 90% of the time it’s the knee that pops), tells the ref: “I am OK”? The ref and myself are looking like “What the heck? We heard it pop”?
Well, what we didn’t know was that it was his shinbone that we heard crack, it was cracked now, but not completely broken yet

So the ref restarts the fight, my opponent moves around, he kicks me, I let him miss, I give him hard inside low kick, he counters with left inside low kick (the same leg I put the inverted heel hook on), I just take the kick, well, this is where his shin completely breaks, after the kick he puts his foot down and you see the lower leg bend outside. Not a fun thing to watch.
What I am saying is that, after we heard the crack, he was moving around, I kicked him and he kicked me back and at that moment it broke.

So this could have been easily the same deal, again, when you don’t flex your leg when kicking and you hit a hard/solid object with a relaxed muscle, (ankle in this case), this can very easily happen.
It’s like hitting somebody while not squeezing your hand into a fist, when you hit a skull with a relaxed hand, you can easily break your hand.

Those are my two cents, and, since I didn’t see anything else happen to the ankle, I assume it was this what started the whole ordeal. But I have been wrong many times before….

UPDATE7-12, 9:25AM. I read that coach Kavanagh said that Conor hurt his ankle In training, and then there is the pic from the last kick on the elbow from Dustin. I assume, all that together, injured, kicked the hard part of the knee and then finally the elbow kick, could have contributed to the injury!

If you want to see the fight with the shinbone that broke, here goes: Bas Rutten's Career MMA Fight #5 vs. Yoshiki Takahashi - YouTube

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When he throws the punch right before the break?

Yeah, he front kicked Dustin in the elbow where it broke right before that. His leg wobbling on that last punch is nasty.

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That doctor, if it’s who I think it is, is as much an idiot as you. I watched like 2 of his videos and couldn’t listen to him. He even made shit up about Weidman that was not there and obvious by looking at it (and confirmed by Weidman after).

No wonder you found him and agree. You’re both blind idiots.

We’ve discussed this ad nauseam. Yes his leg wobbled when he punched. Yes it was from significant trauma earlier (about 2 seconds earlier to be exact) and yes it finally gave way on his final step back to throw another punch.

Get a life already man!

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Ok and what makes you the expert?

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