The Dustin Poirier and Conor McGregor UFC fight lasted 5 minutes on Saturday. Conor ended up on the mat with a broken leg.
Poirier was credited with the victory via first-round TKO since McGregor wasn’t able to continue.
McGregor tried to land a two-punch combination in the final 10 seconds. He went to plant his foot and his leg buckled above his left ankle.
According to Poirier, “He fractured it on one of the checks at the beginning of the fight, then it broke on a punch, for sure. I pointed at him at the beginning of the fight, that’s when I checked a kick, that’s when it cracked. It was probably cracked and then something twisted with the punch.”
McGregor was taken out on a stretcher.
Doctors at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles operated on Conor’s fractured tibia and fibula for three hours, and apparently all went well.
Conor tweeted: “Just out of the surgery room guys! Surgery went excellent! Feeling tremendous! 6 weeks on crutch and we build back! Let’s go! God bless.”
His doctors “are confident that with time he will make a full recovery.”
Conor McGregor spoke to Joe Rogan following his defeat to the American at UFC 264, “This is not over!”
Dustin Poirier says he wants to fight again because he is upset with some of the things McGregor said about him.
The crowd errupted and chanted “USA!” when former president Donald Trump arrived at the UFC fight over the weekend.
