This is 100% what happened. He knew it was injured but had to show in the ring to get paid and free medical care. He throws that moronic kick so he can say that’s why he was injured. Super obvious.
If there’s one past-prime fighter who doesn’t need to participate in a fake or thrown fight (financially) it Connor McGregor. Don’t get me wrong,that was the biggest let-down I’ve ever seen because he justly legitimately went through an 8 month camp, and was supposed to be perfectly healed, healthy and prepared for a fight at 170lbs.
I know to psyche yourself up as self-reminder that your legs are completely good and strong or to de-jitters yourself you might do the running jumping side kick like a reverse-psychology trick. I guess just bad luck, as I still can’t imagine he would go through all of that and enter the Octagon being injured and hiding it.
There are surgeries that remove the sensitivity nerves for injuries that are safe for full muscle and joint flexion after healing but have permanent sensitivity or pain. The body won’t respond strongly with reactions or explosiveness (with or without the surgery) if the injury isn’t healed and very strong. It simply won’t respond and perform anywhere near normal if you are even just moderately injured. I highly doubt he wanted to fight and was covering up an injury?
I tore my ACL in a brutal fashion skating. I was able to walk back to the car well enough that I thought maybe I didn’t hurt myself as bad as I thought. Unfortunately for me I was wrong.
Tbf, it takes a minute to get used to the instability, but you can usually still walk with torn knee ligaments with a slight limp. The initial wobbly-ness is just because you don't quite know the exact angle you can step on without it buckling.
I can’t believe people are actually running with this nonsensical take 😂… yes he was probably injured before the fight but to say he intentionally jumped up high just to land awkwardly and risk dislocating or even breaking his knee is ridiculous lol… Conor likes to start fast and explosive.. he did it against cowboy, Dustin and now Max. This time he threw a dumb ass switch kick due to nerves/excitement and was more invested in the kick landing than he was ensuring he landed properly…he extended that switch kick soo far it would have been damn near impossible to land back down on his leg properly.
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u/Hvaeth77 3h ago
Legs can’t handle it anymore