UFC 329 Recap with King Green & Brandon Royval, Conor McGregor INJURY REACTIONS, Paddy Pimblett Star

And I think this show is going to be focused heavily on Conor McGregor.

But so much happened at UFC 329 that we want to sort of spread out, you know, the love.

But my goodness, Kenny.

I can't even believe what I'm seeing on the Internet in terms of what people think happened here.

Yeah.

Conor McGregor back for the first time in five years and say what you want about maybe some recreational decisions he's made over the last half decade, how.

Committed he's been the whole time in totality to the craft and to maintenance of the martial arts and the skills in his body, right? But to me, this really just looked like an unlucky fluke injury and maybe a wayward decision, even if healthy, to try a switch kick like this right out of the chute, even if he had pre-thought it quite a bit.

There's so much to talk about.

You know, a lot of times when you're an artist and Conor McGregor is an artist, he is a martial artist and very much inspired by that.

I think, you know, you have these ideas of what you're going to do.

And I don't think that was the whole game plan.

But, you know, you see certain things in your opponent and maybe you dream about it, you're envisioning it or you hit it in training and everything.

You know, it sounds like a good idea at the time.

And, you know, perhaps it was, but his body just wasn't ready for it, whether it was wear and tear over the course of the camp or just a misstep on that planting leg.

It unfortunately happened.

And this is a brutal sport, both the preparation for the fight and the fight itself.

And unfortunately for Connor, he planted his foot wrong, reached forward a little bit too much.

His weight was on the wrong part of his leg, and his leg blew out.

Whether it was a meniscus tear or some kind of existing injury that he didn't know about or whatever thought he could push through, I don't know.

I don't want to speculate on that.

But these are things that just happen in this sport.

We've seen it many times before in other sports, of course, as well.

And it was just unfortunate all the way around, man.

Yeah, check out Dr. David Abassi on Instagram, right? We are discouraged, certainly on broadcast, from speculating medically as to what might have happened.

It is amazing for me to see all the talking heads out there on Instagram that have already diagnosed this as a torn ACL when it could be a meniscus.