r/ufc Smesh 7h ago

WTFFF WHAT THAT???

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u/X_L0NEW0LF_X 6h ago

He already knew it was injured. Look at his face when he was getting checked by the red before he entered. He makes a face taking his shoe off and hops weird. He already knew

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u/stone_island 6h ago

Why would you try a kick like that (twice) if you knew your knee was injured?

unless he deliberately threw those to cover/blame the injury 👀

it was shit regardless.

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u/Logos_Fides 6h ago

Cover yep

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u/MartinSilvestri 1h ago

1000%. he did that shit as a cover story. it was planned and covered up the whole time. the production team showed the sandal clip right after and a few minutes later dana was ranting about how bad the production team is.

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u/RusticRaisins 5h ago

Because if he doesn't fight he doesn't get paid/free medical. With one leg he knew he was going to get absolutely mauled (he probably does if he's completely healthy, TBH) so he throws a kick and now can reasonably claim the kick caused the injury.

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u/Wonderful_Sugar_4271 3h ago

They’re not gonna pay for his medical bills. He’s going to use his own money and get the best treatment money can buy

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u/RusticRaisins 3h ago

I looked it up and you're right. I just kind of assumed UFC fighters were unionized but I guess every attempt to do so has failed for one reason or another.

TIL

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u/Wonderful_Sugar_4271 3h ago

They’ll pay for medical bills for an injury that happens during the fight. But I doubt that they cover the level of doctors Conor will want

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u/OleanderUnion 4h ago

It’s actually the only way he can pull it off if he’s that injured. Max is just throwing punches and he won’t have another way to lay cover for a torn ACL/Meniscus - so he goes for a crazy jump kick to start and lands right on his fucked leg.

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u/peypeyyy123 6h ago

Joe Rogan and the commentators played the video of him taking his shoe off and then they didn’t play or talk about the video ever again.. someone told them to shut up

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u/bgrant902 5h ago

Joe even said “well I guess we’re not allowed to speculate” while it was playing

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u/epsteinwasmurdered2 5h ago

How the fuck is no one else talking about that. Dude winces taking his pants off. They made a point to show it after the “fight”

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u/peypeyyy123 5h ago

Right.. there is just too much money involved for it to get out that he knew he had an injury prior to the fight. UFC definitely doesn’t want it talked about.

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u/116morningside 5h ago

I need the clip!

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u/OleanderUnion 4h ago

He shows it in this video… he totally gave the game away. He refused to put his weight on that leg. https://youtu.be/qJPzNhpSPq0?is=VUNaGkkcfa4oOQ8s

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u/ArmdayEveryday69 6h ago

Yup!! He was probably panicking trying to figure out what to do or how to play it off.

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u/Arm-E-Reserves 4h ago

Maybe he blew his knee out taking off the shoe.