Was Conor McGregor’s leg already injured before he stepped into the cage against Dustin Poirier at UFC 264? If it was, the Nevada Athletic Commission didn’t know anything about it,
“If we ever knowingly had information a fighter wasn’t fit to fight, we wouldn’t let them compete,” NAC head Bob Bennett told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “It would go to a doctor and a doctor would make that decision as the expert.”
McGregor has been putting up images and videos to back up his claim that the leg injury he suffered against Poirier was one he carried into the fight and not the result of checked kicks on Poirier’s part.
“Ask Dana White. Ask the UFC. Ask Dr. Davidson, the head doctor of the UFC,” McGregor said. “They knew. My leg, I had stress fractures in my leg going into that cage.”
If the UFC knew anything, they didn’t relay it to the Nevada commission. Neither, apparently, did McGregor’s team when they filled out medical forms clearing McGregor to fight.
In the end, it all kind of works out for McGregor. He and his fans get an excuse, Dustin Poirier gets robbed of credit, and now McGregor gets a surgically improved leg. How true any of those three things are, well….
“I would have never committed to going under the knife unless something like this happened,” McGregor said after his three hour surgery. “So, something like this happened and I’m getting exactly what I needed, and what I needed was a titanium shin bone. Now, I have a titanium rod from my knee to the ankle, and the doctor says it’s unbreakable.”