When Dana White announced at the UFC 222 post-fight presser that Sean O’Malley had not, in fact, broken his foot against Andre Soukhamthath in their PPV main card bout, it sounded like good news. After all, if the foot wasn’t broken, then maybe he could get right back to training after a couple week’s rest.
Nope.
The fast rising young UFC talent stopped by the MMA Hour on Monday, after his fight and he brought some bad news with him. While the foot wasn’t broken in the bout, an older fracture was discovered, and it sounds like he has some serious ligament damage to attend to (transcript via MMA Fighting):
“They said it wasn’t broken, but they said I’ve got a previous fracture in there from before the fight, so I’m gonna figure out what’s wrong with it.