![]() ![]() Former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva was horrified after what happened to Chris. The odds of these things happening in this number are nuts. Anderson Silva ‘really sad’ about Weidman leg break: ‘It felt like it happened to me again’. ![]() He threw it and Uriah Hall checked it and he broke his leg. Anderson Silva threw a kick had he checked it and Anderson broke his leg. Commentators Joe Rogan, Daniel Cormier and Joe Anik could barely look as Weidman winced on the ground, with the former two using each other to block out the scenes in front of their very. A cast was put on Chris Weidman and he was immediately transported to a hospital on a stretcher. “The crazy thing is there have only been four leg breaks like that in the history of the UFC and Chris Weidman has been involved in two of them. The 36-year-olds nasty leg injury was extremely painful and gruesome to watch as even the 15,000 fans in attendance in the arena were left completely shell shocked with the outcome. “The Chris Weidman one was a freak accident,” Rogan said. Rogan continued by saying that he’s bemused at how Weidman has been involved in two out of the four leg breaks in UFC history. Outside of referee Herb Dean, and of course opponent Uriah Hall, perhaps no one had a closer look at Chris Weidman’s grisly leg break than Joe Rogan, along with fellow UFC 261 commentators Jon Anik and Daniel Cormier. People are getting good at breaking people’s bones.” Rematching his old foe, Uriah Hall, the All-American suffered a gruesome technical knockout loss via a leg break only 17. There’s been a ton of breaks over and over again. Weidman, 38, last fought in April 2021 at UFC 261 in a rematch. ‘Jacare’ Souza had his arm broken, Chris Weidman got his leg broken. “There have been so many fights in the UFC and to have all these breaks in a row. “Here’s what’s really crazy,” Rogan said. Speaking on his ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ podcast (as transcribed by ), Rogan commented on the recent spate of broken bones inside the Octagon. Silva suffered a gruesome leg break in 2013, ironically in his rematch with the American. Weidman snapped his leg in half while throwing a kick in his UFC 261 bout with Uriah Hall a few months ago. Only three other current and former UFC fighters can relate to the freak injury suffered by McGregor, namely Corey Hill, Anderson Silva and Chris Weidman. The fight was stopped and Poirier was declared the winner by doctor’s stoppage. The former two-division champion was examined by a doctor after he told referee Herb Dean about his injury at the end of the first round. Unaware of what had happened, Poirier jumped on a turtled-up McGregor and landed a barrage of heavy punches until the buzzer. ‘The Notorious’ fractured his tibia and crashed onto the canvas with a few seconds remaining of the first round at UFC 264. That was dark, you know, like see it snap like that and fall over and the bone poke through the back of his calf. His most recent at 185-pounds also came against Omari Akhmedov back in July 2021.Giving his thoughts on Conor McGregor fracturing his tibia in his trilogy with Dustin Poirier at UFC 264, Joe Rogan has said that fighters have become good at breaking their opponents’ bones. Rogan said After watching Weidman’s leg break a couple of weeks ago against Hall. Tavares, meanwhile, has lost his past two fights which have come against Bruno Silva and Dricus Du Plessis. Outside of referee Herb Dean, and of course opponent Uriah Hall, perhaps no one had a closer look at Chris Weidman’s grisly leg break than Joe Rogan, along with fellow UFC 261. Prior to the fight with Hall, Weidman scored a decision victory against Omari Akhmedov in his return to the UFC’s middleweight fold following a light heavyweight defeat against two-time former title challenger Dominick Reyes. “I don’t want to cry, I’m not going to cry, but I don’t know if you know this, but I snapped my leg in half in April 2021, and I wasn’t sure I was ever going to be able to compete again in anything, and so to able to come out here and put a show for you guys, win or lose, is truly a dream.” “These last two years have been the hardest years of my life,” said Weidman after returning to competition in a grappling match which was broadcast on UFC Fight Pass in March. He undertook two surgeries to repair the injury. The injury occurred when the New Yorker threw a leg kick early in the first round, leading to a compound fracture which has sidelined him from mixed martial arts for more than two years. ![]() The fight will represent Weidman’s first bout since suffering a badly broken leg in the opening seconds of an April 2021 fight against Uriah Hall. Former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman will fight Brad Tavares at UFC 292 in Boston on August 19, it has been reported. ![]()
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