UFC 303 has revolved round fighter toes.
Yep, you learn that proper. Worldwide Battle Week bought shuffled on quick discover due to Conor McGregor struggling a damaged pinky toe. Coincidentally he was changed by the Mild Heavyweight champion, Alex Pereira, who handled the identical harm (plus one) in his final combat in opposition to Jamahal Hill at UFC 300 in April 2024.
The combined martial arts (MMA) group has referred to as out McGregor, making the comparability with Pereira’s willingness to step in and having fought with broken extremities. Nonetheless, “Poatan” isn’t becoming a member of them.
“I can’t decide whether or not he fights or not as a result of actually, he’s in some extent in his life the place he secured himself on many various monetary points,” Pereira advised ESPN. “Possibly he was preventing in a a lot completely different situation than I’m preventing. Possibly if I used to be preventing within the state of affairs the place he’s in life proper now, I don’t know if I’d do it, too. So, I can’t decide how unhealthy it’s.
“It’s onerous to combat with a damaged pinky [toe],” he continued. “It’s a dangerous resolution, very dangerous resolution to combat with a damaged toe. I broke one earlier than the combat, it was unhealthy, within the combat I broke the opposite one. Possibly if it was the opposite one, I wouldn’t have been capable of combat, so I can’t weigh that, however I made the best selection.”
Pereira seems to be to efficiently defend his UFC Mild Heavyweight crown for the second time when he rematches the person he received it in opposition to, Jiri Prochazka, contained in the T-Cellular Enviornment in Las Vegas this weekend (Sat., June 25, 2024).
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