UFC welterweight Rory Mac has been left looking for solutions after repeatedly breaking his nose.
There’s something of an anecdote in MMA that says, a facial injury can change a fighter’s career forever. Every longtime fan remembers what happened to Josh Koscheck after his orbital got broken. Every fight after that it seemed, at some point he’d start rubbing his eye, perhaps reflexively trying to wipe away the memory and assure himself it wasn’t getting broken again.
The problem, of course, is that facial injuries, unlike injures to legs or arms or ribs or any of the other litany of things that can happen, are front and center to a fighter’s craft.