Chris Weidman averted any severe knee accidents in his combat with Brad Tavares at UFC 292, however he didn’t escape totally unscathed.
The previous middleweight champion made his return in August following a two-year layoff, which got here after he snapped his leg in a grotesque harm throughout a 2021 combat with Uriah Hall. Weidman finally misplaced a unanimous resolution in his return, as Tavares focused each of his legs with a collection of vicious kicks over three rounds.
UFC president Dana White hinted that Weidman might have suffered one other main harm through the combat and begged him to “please, please retire.” That doesn’t sound like that’s in Weidman’s plans, nevertheless, though the previous champ will nonetheless want a while to get better from a brand new fracture in his left leg after breaking his proper leg two years in the past.
“There was no ligament tears in any respect,” Weidman revealed on his Sirius XM present. “So ACL, LCL, MCL, PCL, all these ‘Ls’ that you do not need to tear as a result of that’s like six months to a 12 months of restoration. The ligaments are good.
“What did occur to me although, I’ve a fracture in my left leg. So he broke my leg with a type of leg kicks. I ended up switching to southpaw and figuring it out. However I’m fairly positive that’s when my leg broke, fractured it. It’s on the tibula head, proper beneath my knee is the place it broke. Higher tibia bone is what’s fractured. Restoration clever, it’s not unhealthy in any respect. 4 weeks. 4-week restoration, that’s it.”
With 4 weeks of restoration time wanted for the fracture in his left leg, Weidman will possible have to attend till October to return to coaching, though there’s no phrase but on when he may compete once more.
Past his damaged leg, Weidman has endured a mess of surgical procedures — together with 4 on his proper leg — throughout his profession, however the 39-year-old veteran remains to be plotting one other comeback as soon as this newest harm is healed.
