'Management is then typically surgery with an intramedullary rod, where they put a metal rod down through the center of the tibia to get that fracture back together. 'The number one thing the medical team is going to do in the arena is stabilize the fracture, put a splint around it because you don't want those bones to move around any more than they already are,' Sutterer continues. Former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman revealed he fractured his left leg in his unanimous decision loss to Brad Tavares at UFC 292.'So, I guess he broke my leg with one of those leg kicks.

'It's just rigid,' he says, 'like kicking a concrete wall.' Chris Weidman has suffered another leg injury, although it’s nowhere near the disaster that he had to deal with in the 2021 appearance that saw him get stretchered out of the UFC. As neither Hall's knee nor Weidman's tibia had any muscle tissue, Sutterer says the impact was a 'bone-on-bone' mechanism. Former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman says he’s facing a recovery period of up to a year after badly breaking his leg in a fight against Uriah Hall. The former middleweight titleholder has been out of action for almost two years, recovering from a nasty leg break that he suffered in his fight against Uriah Hall back at UFC 261 in 2021. Brian Sutterer talks viewers through the stomach-turning footage from the fight, explaining that the fracture occurred when Weidman's tibia made contact with Hall's tibial plateau, an area just underneath the kneecap. GRAPHIC video: Chris Weidman got Anderson Silva’d, badly breaks leg vs Hall at UFC 261. Despite all the adversity in recent years, Chris Weidman is still hopeful that he’ll one day be UFC champion again. In a new video on his YouTube channel, physical medicine and rehab expert Dr. Weidman opened the fight with a long distance kick, aiming at the calf. Weidman threw a leg kick to Hall that caused a clean break on his right shin, ending the bout in just 17 seconds. There is no reasonable explanation for Chris Weidman vs. Somewhat ironically, the injury is very similar to that sustained by Anderson Silva during one of Weidman's earlier fights. The fight between Weidman and Hall was quick and gruesome. Middleweight fighter Chris Weidman suffered a serious fracture in his right leg at UFC 261 last night, after delivering a kick which was blocked by his opponent Uriah Hall just seconds into the first round.

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