Horrific Injuries and Leg Breaks in the UFC

Taken from JRE MMA Show #144 w/Jared Cannonier:
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[@jopo7996]

I don't know which is worse. Seeing the shin break on contact, or when the fighter steps back and puts their weight on it. If I had to choose, I'd say Brendan Schaub's comedy.

[@Coalemos]

😂 I can see it bowlth ways B

[@ItsReplayBro]

Had us in the first 3 quarters ngl 😂

[@desperatewanderer742]

This was the best fucking comment I read today

[@AdopteeOutOftheFog]

😂

[@limahaenga9780]

😂😂😂

[@lkenshi666]

Jared is a TANK of a human 🫡

[@J_Titor]

Jared the cannon

[@Created2skate]

Strickland schooled him

[@mrspiff6955]

@@Created2skatenope

[@glenshort6567]

@@mrspiff6955yep, Sean clearly won

[@Created2skate]

@@mrspiff6955 he got schooled dog he fighting Izzy next not the dude who lost to the both of them

[@tsquirrel8675]

Silva and Weidman had some of the nastiest leg breaks, watching that live was crazy

[@perkele1989]

Jesus christ you weren't joking. Utter soulcringe.

[@axelaznar5475]

It' s like a mysterious universal cycle the story of those two men mindblowing

[@wheelmanstan]

Interesting how Silva, like Conor, snapped his leg in a rematch after getting KO'd by the guy he's fighting. Also interesting how Weidman eventually snapped his leg as well. I mean what are the chances? I mean it would be insane if Porier snaps his leg at some point.

[@hakr4751]

And dont forget corey hill

[@jmccann6735]

​@wheelmanstan oooof dude just reading makes my whole body shudder 😂

[@badz4855]

Jared such a smart and kind soul but one of the most badass and technical fighters out there. Let alone him still doing this at almost 40 years of age !

[@jdhd9928]

Joe: My friend Tom broke his arm Jared: Was it humorous? 😂

[@rogeraraiza9690]

Killa Gorilla seems like such a chill guy. In phenomenal shape for damn near 40 . 🦍👊

[@nathanwho1384]

I will always remember when Willis McGahee had his knee bent the wrong way on a tackle. I was watching the game live and it was the first time i had seen an injury like that in slow motion. His knee bent almost 45 degrees the opposite direction, at full speed. Brutal.

[@nathanwho1384]

@Thizlamic I saw a similar shin injury in high school while playing. It sounded like someone smacked 2 blocks of wood together really hard. I'll never forget that.

[@MM-qi5mk]

I remember that vividly 😮

[@UberTankred]

The low kick style where the shin moves in an almost straight line to the opponent's thigh is fast, but - if checked - carries the risk of the weakest part of your shin (above the foot) hitting the toughest part of your opponent's shin (below the knee). The other low kick style follows a chopping motion and has the downside of being too telegraphed, but doesn't carry the same risk of injury if checked.

[@lupus4687]

Yes right. That's why that fast calf kick is so effective coz you can't really check it and then if you do it all hurts.

[@Rulikar]

I remember seeing Kevin Ware’s leg snap in a game, that was hard to watch.

[@_will795]

Yeah that shit was crazy

[@DasFlippityFlop]

That’s one of, if not the most brutal injuries ever in sports

[@CottonEyedJoeWDYCF]

Yea that was actually fucked watched it happen live.

[@CoachMacdaddy]

Oh yeah and the trainer throwing the towel over it sooo crazy

[@Mattyic313]

Imagine breaking ur leg at a local amateur fight with no insurance 😂😂

[@Daniella_Watch_me_live_for]

Arm wrestling arm break are always spiral fractures. They are loud and brutal!! Seen a few at tournaments over the years.

[@joshuanewman876]

Had a guy in highschool get his entire knee blown out at practice. I’ll never forget hearing that shit

[@charlest5604]

A teammate and I hit a running back from both sides and broke his collar bone. Could hear it over everything. The kid was crying, and his mom cussed at us after the game.

[@UltraMagnis]

Every single person who has split their leg like that has come out and said they thought they had shin splints but after the fact it's diagnosed as stress fractures leading to the break. When you train low kicks hard to condition the shin bone after never having done it before, stress fractures appear. If you do not let them rest and heal all the way they never heal. It's basically really bad shin splints but the fractures are not superficial like splints they penetrate deep into the bone. Shin splints are caused by impacts on hard surfaces being too much for the shins and they get very very minor stress fractures that go in all different directions. With low kick training they inspected the break of widman and his stress fractures were all in one direction, the direction in which he had been training low kicks and check. So there is a direct link to over training of hard kicks and these stress fractures. It only take one misplaced check to start the process. It can easily be mistaken as regular shin splints. Every person I've seen with this break has said they had shin splints before it broke. But infact they were deep deep stress fractures from overtraining and not enough recovery. I was interested to see why it kept happening and this is the Theory of a lot of experts in the field like surgeons for sport injuries etc. The forces your hips make in that low kick style is huge and easily enough to start a cycle to stress fractures. Then when fight night comes and they take the brakes off and they go all out power wise.....we see the shin finally let go from the stress fractures. It's never fun to watch but something I think should be looked into. Maybe we bring in some pads for the shins to protect them from these injuries and preventing the bone on bone contact? Doesn't need to be much just enough so it doesn't stress the shin bone to the point of failure. Just my 2 cents

[@-Ice_Cold-]

Yeah, Conor said he had stress fractures too. But the way Weidman kicked, its easily break the leg by such angle

[@matthewreist6530]

Goggins would just walk it off

[@4bidden1]

😂

[@Werdxp]

Even Goggins is human. You need bones that are connected to walk lmao

[@4bidden1]

@@Werdxp not goggins 😭

[@thejacobnye]

Joe you should really do an interview with Tim Ballard!

[@zexter33]

I can’t believe it’s been over 2 years since we last saw Conor Fight

[@jonthompson1068]

Crazier that he has only won one fight in 7 years

[@seank9823]

​@@jonthompson1068That's just wrong he is 3 for 3 since 2016. Where's this 1 win in 7 years coming from ?

[@roddydykes7053]

I can

[@beyondxxl]

@@seank9823Cowboy was his last win

[@beaualoevv]

@@beyondxxlpoirer 2 & 3 are both no contests

[@michaelkerr8218]

He needs to check out the leg break from the Sao paulo v Fluminese football game the other day!!! 😫😫😫😫

[@MrTee12]

Imaging Kicking someone so Hard your leg bone breaks 😮😬

[@shivamjha3050]

I can feel it 😂😂 in my testicles

[@pabloruiz6224]

Way painful different than a boxer’s knockout punch.

[@JavonCarterTV]

Leg injuries ain't no joke

[@palmedor9916]

This show needs to be back in KZbin 🤞🏽

[@aceofinvesting]

Thanks for the valuable content

[@andrewb5412]

Weidman just had a match with a raided up dude and comes back this month.

[@aaabeverages7152]

That's sad and disabling for mma personnel.

[@kevinrod14]

Kicks are just beautiful to watch.

[@BenmacBlog]

i love when a guest goes to say something that make sense and joe just talks over them

[@Howhighsquad001]

“Oohh that was horrible that horrible 😮😮😮” 😂😂😂

[@wilsonjoshwilson]

Evangelista Santos literally had his skull crushed by Micheal Venom Page. Crazy injury.

[@Cssaarr]

there must be a specific reason why Thai fighters rarely get their tibia broken (or rather, a set of specific reasons). I am sure it goes beyond "conditioning" and nutrition, and has more to do with TECHNIQUE (timing, angle and distance both when throwing the kick with full force and when blocking, etc ). It is VERY needed that someone collects all of those and make an educational video for westeners

[@guitarazn90210]

Maybe they're kicking closer to their ankle with a slight angle at their knee to allow for more shock absorption. Instead of a straight leg kick right in the middle of the tibia.

[@Cssaarr]

@@guitarazn90210 ehj, I don´t know, may be, but I have seen all kinds of full force kicks in every part of the tibia by thais

[@Graciehunter32]

The reason is because Thai fighters kick in a downward motion when throwing calf kicks and leg kicks, which makes the risk of breaking your shin much lower, when you kick in an upward motion at someone’s leg and they check it, your shin wraps around their leg and that’s what causes it to snap

[@Straightoutta]

They’re also a lot smaller, more mass = bigger impact

[@justfloatingthrough2457]

Love that he didn’t t blame the broken arm in his fight with Whittaker as bad luck. Fan of this dude since his fight with Ion Cutelaba.

[@joelidirt]

Jared’s a fuckin unit. The Vettori fight really shows it.

[@NemesisGrowz]

Weidman was the worst imo he literally stood on it, Mcgregor will be fine

[@iknowyoureright8564]

Ummm…….Mcgregor stood on his too.

[@ngatiwarrior6975]

@@NemesisGrowz thought McGregors snapped when he stood on it

[@NemesisGrowz]

@@ngatiwarrior6975 It did but he transferred his weight to his good leg and dropped himself before doing to much damage internally whereas Chris fully relied on that leg after the break causing it to need multiple surgeries the stand fragmented the bone and caused serious lacerations

[@ngatiwarrior6975]

@@NemesisGrowz lmao your completely wrong, you know Chris has a channel which shows everything ? He only needed 2 surgeries, the second surgery was because his febula wasn't healing like it should and needed an extra plate to mend better, nothing to do with muscle tissue, lacerations or anything, crazy how you can talk nonsense and not think you'd get called up on it.

[@Blackkey034]

@@ngatiwarrior6975thanks for applying justice and making the world a better place in a JRE comment section reply

[@terryhughes6248]

Let's goooo with that hitter Joe!!

[@GhostC01]

jimmy crutes injury looked quite nasty too there has been so many but by far the one that looked the worse too me was the anderson silva one that is still disgusting to watch til this day

[@bizantino]

That was nothing compared to football player Sanchez's fracture with Marcelo yesterday!

[@dennis3224]

Welp looks like I’m about to spend my next 3 hours listening to the full thing

[@jasonmattgissendaner4634]

Saw and heard an arm blowout, guy threw a curveball and the bones broke below the elbow.... everyone said "we're done playing today".

[@icelandiccubicle3418]

This guy seems like a gentleman, hard to believe he's the same savage beast in the cage.

[@CornBread205]

these kind of leg and arm breaks are so common in motocross racing

[@codyconnell6510]

I absolutely love that if you are a longtime ufc fighter and come out of a fight with an incredible performance, Joe will almost certainly have you on the show.

[@s43wy2]

Love ya joe

[@ufcprophet40]

Jared is great. Very intelligent as well

[@tommyshelby4803]

Corey hill was the first leg snap i remember from back in the day, kicked broke, stepped back and folded

[@David-uj8ep]

Joe can you put same ligths behind your guest so wee can see him, thank you

[@NinjaDildoShow]

*Cannonier is one of my favorite fighters outside of the cage. I'm not saying that I don't enjoy his fights, but I find his thoughts and perspective fascinating.*

[@crimsonomega428]

I knew a guy in highschool who trained either boxing or kickboxing and I remember his eye was so bad it looked like it would fall out

[@ddevenba6r288]

RIP Corey Hill, the first one I remember seeing happen..

[@Liz-cmc313]

Joe theismann's break will always be in my head 🦵

[@jakepayne1984]

I might have to buy that shirt Jared has on lol

[@LukeC908]

“My friend broke his arm. Look that up, Jaimie.”

[@dragasan]

Cannonier! He's a good one!

[@capy069]

The Lab is a beautiful gym, a lot packed into a little place

[@omar7132]

That shirt is fire

[@kidscode3702]

Goddamn, didnt know Jared broke his arm from that Whittaker high kick. Makes his KO recently that much more scary. Goddamn it 😂

[@InspectorButters4]

I always kinda thought Jared was a typical meathead jock who played football, wrestled or whatever before he started mma, but I was dead wrong and surprisingly he's an intellectual too 😂. I really like when the best fighters in the world are just normal nerds who went on to do amazing things!! That's way more inspiring than seeing some guy who was a super athlete from age 5 become a champ or a star....... bc that gives the rest of us normies hope! 🤞🤞 If the Strickland fight doesn't work out then hopefully Jared gets the next crack at Izzy and the belt 😁✌️

[@rafaelsolis47]

You know the combination but yet almost got finished with it .

[@Beastly707]

Imagine now he earns less in the UFC then his past six figure job 😂

[@willusmaximus6985]

With a lot of people's businesses, health and no injuries are everything, it is their business. And as a juggler, I had my arm broken by a hit and run car last year, and I was out the game for at least two months, but to this day I'm street performing making my dough even though I still have a lot of haters, I keep it pushing.

[@victorvic680]

It’s funny seeing this after watching Diego Lopes dislocate Gavin Tucker elbow with a nasty arm triangle.

[@kjss4345]

He's like Eddie Murphy with muscle 😂

[@cookiemonster-od9uj]

This where I get my info from

[@traviscoates6878]

My friend Tom broke his arm playing basketball... Understatement of the year

[@Machaotake]

Welp, now i'm scared to train lmao.

[@FloridaCaptains]

Joe. Wtf are you whispering for?! Tf?! 😂

[@nadaduo1765]

how about that marcelo tackle last night, you want to talk about injuries, god damn !! lol

[@Razear]

I feel like at least a part of him has to have felt bad for Silva when he fought him after seeing Anderson laying on the ground wincing in pain. These are the types of injuries that you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy, effing brutal.

[@BullyBoxer]

I would’ve loved to see Tyrone Spong forget about fighting at heavyweight and come down and give it a go boxing at Bridgerweight , I think he would’ve done excellently.

[@Coalemos]

I had to look up the arm break. I'm not really into the fighting side of it, I'm sometimes amused at the drama from the fighters, commentators, owner for that matter. It was absolutely brutal, his whole upper arm bruised up immediately. Then, I saw a short of a spiral fracture, 😮

[@samp6162]

Who were they talking about?

[@DrakathDrago]

@@samp6162 Aaron Strawmier Johnathan Riffles fight

[@samp6162]

@@DrakathDrago thank you

[@Coalemos]

@@samp6162 The spiral fracture of the humerus was about the Mir vs Nogueira fight. It's absolutely brutal and Rogan's comment, something like "that was horrible! Horrible!". And just tap! Was about that fight. That's what I looked at anyway. I then saw the the guy who broke the arm (I think Mir but not 100% but I think so) talk about it and said that he didn't think he destroyed his whole upper arm.

[@254Jwill]

I honestly thought this was Terrance Crawford when I glanced at the thumbnail

[@xinixproductions.]

Marcelo from real Madrid could be in this vid as well😢

[@yhyhyh47]

is this a new or old episode?

[@GhastlyCretin]

New

[@chrissilvester5663]

Why can't we see these gruesome injuries lol

[@docdominus]

The unbreakable titanium shin-bone 😅

[@REALReefSide]

I forgot Saki was in the ufc

[@Rickyboobie]

Terrance McKinney had one before he was in the ufc

[@roybraithwaite9332]

There was a horrific injury to a female ufc fighter just the other week where she fell back stuck her arm out and forearm snapped completely backwards from her elbow haven't seen that before don't want to see it again 😱

[@bigez4024]

Yeah I tuned in and after the break her screams were insane

[@jonmurphy4889]

Always been a fear of mine throwing a low roundhouse even a mid someone gets that perfect block with their knee...

[@GeorgeVega-bw7ir]

Shattered my fibula tore my ligaments couldn’t step for a year😅

[@tiagozanon3465]

Yo Joe! Bring Nathan ‘Carnage’ Corbett to the show

[@unwokeneuropean3590]

Thats fight. The legs being broken in football is hardcore. Remember when Taylor broke the leg of Eduardo in the English premiership league?

[@SplattGang]

The KILLLLAAAAAAA GORILLAAAAAAA 🦍

[@chaccotv7713]

Love the Killa Gorilla

[@LimerickR266]

It's gonna be interesting to see how McGregor looks after his injury.

[@benbooth2783]

Worst sporting injury I've ever seen was David Buust. He played football (soccer) for Coventry. During a match between Manchester United and Coventry, he got hit with two nasty sliding tackles simultaneously, his shin literally got bent into a u shape.

[@justincaya9995]

cory hill was the first in the ufc to have this break and apparently ufc left him high n dry in hospital to pay for everything himself

[@user-rz4re9tu3r]

The one in football last night done by marcelo was the worst ever.

[@Breakerr]

Wouldn't say Silva really came back. Sure he fought but he's nothing compared to what he was before that the leg break slowed him right now he lost all his movement. You still can't beat Rich Franklin breaking his arm while fighting Chuck and then went and knocked Chuck out

[@PeterFnPorker]

crazy to think that just 100 years ago if you had this type of injury you probably died

[@marcoeire44]

No, broken bones doesnt lead to death, but they would have been crippled and therefore useless in the workplace

[@PeterFnPorker]

@@marcoeire44 bruh 100 years ago antibiotics did not exist… getting an infection meant having your limb amputated and in most cases people didn’t survive…

[@eddiefordjour3455]

God bless

[@M3LT666]

Yes

[@JamesLehartProductions]

I mean Aspinal won last weekend

[@4bidden1]

Joe: Jamie pull up the video of a bear breaking Nate Diaz’s leg while snorting DMT

[@chefnelsonsbbq]

Someone that isn't familiar with bjj might not know it's time to tap. Some people have a high pain tolerance so they might not sense danger until it's too late. But otherwise, yes, tap if you know you should.

[@SolusT.V.]

You gotta have Sean Strickland on!

[@randallparaday4102]

He already been on

[@hakr4751]

He already had him

[@buckwildxp1]

I'm only 1:30 in and already wincing because I know they are gonna show one. I'm probably not gonna finish this one...

[@thegreatone5381]

What about Tom aspinal

[@David-vn8iv]

Silva in his prime vs Jones . ???

[@wheelmanstan]

crazy sport, you just cannot let the fear of a leg snap slow down your kicks, you just gotta say F it and pretend it's not something that will ever happen to you, doesn't matter how good your technique is, you get tired and sloppy and your opponent moves and that leg can snap, some of the nastiest breaks though were tate getting her arm torn up by ronda, those leg locks by ken shamrock and that lunatic palhares (snapping knees and ankles) and when silvia got his arm snapped by munson and Timur was killing it with his leg kicks the other night on Ultimate Fighter..terrible judging, the guy clearly won

[@jaytoppo1670]

Horrific leg breaks, that's fk all, try losing a leg above the knee, physically one can never get back to full health, a break of a bone is just a break and heals and you're on your way again in most cases, try living with one leg as I've done for the last decade, it's not easy, a true test of character... hey, did you know, apparently, according to the staff in our UK government in the DWP who deal with disability benefits, they believe us humans can regrow limbs lol.. I don't lie lol... the US isn't the only bat sh@t crazy place...

[@jacobmcmahon6071]

Coach!!!!!! Fuck yeahhh boiiii!!!

[@twistpv]

Idk if the dream would always happen when the bone healing goes on, haven’t broken that many, or heard others really say much Idk if others would be paying attention/ watching closely enough to notice?? Idk I wouldn’t say it’s significant enough to really talk story about, more on par with lucid, but strange like it made me wonder if there could be continuity there to something extra(separate from the day) It could also just be some primal don’t give up shit like a cookie, saying there’s more or just the healing coupled with the change in rhythm from being down a limb … long time ago tho, but the bones were weird for me, I’d just roll over and return like the same place every night, weird time, not very abstract either.