Conor McGregor suffered a broken leg at UFC 264 that concluded a couple of months ago
Conor McGregor’s plans to avenge his defeat against Dustin Poirier at UFC 257 didn’t go as planned as he suffered a brutal broken leg at UFC 264 in the trilogy fight.
His left ankle was broken, and he had to undergo surgery the next day. Since then he has been recovering from the same, and is expected to be back next year (taking into account, his medical suspension as well).
His injury was pretty similar to the one Anderson Silva suffered 8 years ago, against Chris Weidman (who had suffered a similar one recently as well).
In a recent interview with Submission Radio, Silva had several words of advice for the Irishman.
‘Spider’ asked McGregor to continue working on his upper body and focus only on the recovery and not on the next fight.
Here is what Silva had to say:
“[My advice] for Conor right now is, take time and continue work and continue doing the physiotherapy, continue working [the] upper body and stay mind outside the fight game. Just keep the focus on your recovery, and don’t think about you gotta fight tomorrow or in six months. Just recovery your body. Stay ready to prepare your mind for when you’re back, you’re back strong, you’re back better.” [via MMA Mania]
Conor McGregor responds to Anderson Silva’s advice
Conor McGregor was pleased to have received words of advice from the legendary Anderson Silva.
Taking to Instagram, McGregor thanked Silva, before going on to state how he had received very little from his colleagues following his injury.
McGregor’s Instagram post read:
“I appreciate this message greatly Anderson, thank you. You know, since this freak injury happened to me, I’ve had very little support from my fellow colleagues. In fact quite the exact opposite. The claws came out. But no worries! I love a little scratch from a b—ch. See yous when I get ya’s you’s little nobodies! Happy ‘little Saturday’ everyone.”
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