UFC president Dana White is backing up the notion that Conor McGregor’s ankle wasn’t 100 percent heading into his UFC 264 grudge match against Dustin Poirier.
McGregor suffered a grisly loss via doctor’s stoppage to Poirier after breaking his tibia and fibula in the closing seconds of the first round of UFC 264’s main event. In the days and weeks since McGregor’s loss, the former two-division UFC champion has claimed that he entered the Poirier trilogy fight with stress fractures in his leg and that White and UFC officials were aware of his injury woes.