“I think in the summer – sometime in the summer,” Weidman said. The 38-year-old got his first taste of action since his injury when he lost a decision to Owen Livesey in a grappling match at Polaris 23 earlier this month and is eyeing a summer octagon comeback. Weidman will return to his original weight class and doesn’t see himself having any issues making the middleweight mark. I’m just doing physical therapy and still working on that.”

But they’re saying that is just based on the quad and the calf need to get a little bit stronger still.

When I’m up on my toes and stuff like that and I start bouncing, I get like a little pain on the shin and stuff. But you know what? My goal is to kick as hard as I possibly can, so maybe it does happen. A compound fracture is not going to be happening. For me to break my bone and then through the rod, I don’t think that’s going to happen. “I got a titanium rod through the middle of my shin bone – right through the whole (bone), from the top of my knee all the way down to the low part of my ankle to the bottom of the tibia,” Weidman said on UFC Unfiltered. He since has gone through a grueling process to get back on his feet, and the former UFC middleweight champion is comfortable to start kicking in fights again soon. He was stretchered out and quickly underwent emergency surgery. Weidman (15-6 MMA, 11-6 UFC) snapped his right leg on the first kick he threw against Uriah Hall at UFC 261. The reason why it was so hard is that I’m doing it lying down, and I have Anesthesia and pain killers in me.Chris Weidman is ready to return after enduring a horrific leg break in April 2021. After deep concentration for an hour, I could pee that out, so I didn’t have to get the catheter. I don’t want that, so I told them to give me an hour, and if I couldn’t do it by then, they could do Catheter. Also, my bladder numbers were high, and I couldn’t go to the bathroom, so they told me I would have to get a catheter. The PT team got me to walk with a walker today. In his most recent update, Weidman shared the positive news that he’s moving around with a walker just three days later and is expected to be discharged from the hospital Tuesday, He’ll fly home in a private jet courtesy of UFC president Dana White. I then went and pushed security out of the way so his coaches could get into the octagon and he could have some familiar faces next to him during that horrific event.”įollowing Weidman’s injury, Silva took to social media to wish him a speedy recovery, which Weidman was very appreciative of. There was no happiness on my behalf from that point on. That’s when I noticed him holding his leg in place. After circling the octagon, I realized that he was in severe pain by his yelling and immediately went and checked on him and tried to console him. Painful for a short time, but gets better quickly – kind of like a body shot. I just thought I checked his leg kick good, and he went down in pain, which often happens in sparring. “Anyone saying I celebrated when Anderson’s leg snapped is entirely wrong. Weidman felt the need to explain himself Tuesday after some people unfortunately reveled in his horrific leg break, as though it was karma for the way he handled Silva’s injury.

But Weidman said that he initially had no idea Silva suffered such a gruesome injury and went to console him as soon as he realized what actually happened. Weidman (15-6 MMA, 11-6 UFC), who had his right leg snapped after throwing a kick that was checked by Uriah Hall, was on the receiving end of the same injury that Anderson Silva suffered when Weidman checked his leg kick in their December 2013 rematch at UFC 168.Īs soon as Silva went down, then-middleweight champion Weidman threw his hands up in celebration, an action for which he was heavily criticized at the time. When Chris Weidman broke his leg this past Saturday at UFC 263, many people jumped to say it was karma.

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