Complete leg breaks are, thankfully, a rare occurrence in MMA. However, even the handful we’ve seen feel like far too many.
And the chances of such a traumatic injury happening twice with the same fighter in the cage feels so small, that the fact that’s what happened last night is especially cruel.
Years after Chris Weidman witnessed Anderson Silva break his leg on a checked leg kick, the identical thing happened to Weidman when his own kick was checked by Uriah Hall. The horrific injury ended the fight and saw a distraught Weidman removed from the cage on a stretcher.