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At UFC 261, Chris Weidman suffered one of the worst injuries in recent MMA memory when he broke his leg in the opening seconds of his contest with Uriah Hall.
The middleweight was stretchered out of the octagon and taken to hospital where he had surgery to restructure his leg the next day.
The operation was said to be a successful, but Weidman revealed on his Instagram that he has some lingering concerns.
“I was pretty scared about this pain because I’m thinking about the worst-case scenarios,” he explained.
“Worst-care scenario is that the blood supply doesn’t come back to my bone and doesn’t take, which would mean possible amputation.”
Weidman explained the logic behind his concerns and it stems from a previous problem he had with a broken bone.
“I had that happen to my thumb after I fought Kelvin Gastelum,” he said.
“I had a surgery for a ligament that tore after throwing a left hook on him and then about eight weeks after surgery they realised that the blood supply to that bone, it was such a concussive shot that the blood supply wasn’t coming back.
“So they had to take my whole bone out and put my hip bone inside there because the (thumb) bone was just deteriorating and dying.
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“So if that happened to my shin bone – my tibia or my fibula – I don’t know what would happen. Amputation, prosthetic leg, all that. So that scares me, and I’m praying and positive that’s not going to happen.
“But that’s just a possibility. I’ve spoken to a doctor about it. Tibias have the worst percentages of taking and healing properly after surgery. It’s not a bad percentage, it’s like five per cent. So that’s scary.”
The mental struggle with an injury as severe as a leg break is just as tough as the break itself. Given Weidman’s previous experiences, it’s understandable why he’d be concerned.
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