Yoel Romero finished Luke Rockhold in the third round with a violent knockout Saturday night. Two rounds earlier, though, Romero might have actually broken his leg.
Romero, the explosive middleweight supernova, told interviewer Megan Olivi on the FS1 post-fight show that he believes a pair of Rockhold kicks did major damage to his wheels in the main event of UFC 221 in Perth, Western Australia.
“Yes, I think in the first round I took two kicks and I’m pretty sure that it broke my leg,” Romero said through a translator.
Romero, 40, could not stand up for the post-fight interview with Jon Anik in the Octagon and he had to be helped out of the cage by his team.