Chris Weidman out six to 12 months with broken leg
Former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman (15-6-0) suffered a horrific and graphic broken leg seconds into his match versus Uriah Hall at Saturday's UFC 261 pay-per-view.
On Monday, Weidman posted an update on his recovery on Instagram.
Per Brett Okamoto of ESPN, Weidman broke the tibia and fibula in his right leg when Hall checked a leg kick. The 36-year-old remains in the hospital after having a titanium rod inserted into his leg via surgery.
"Pretty brutal, but I'm going to get through this," Weidman said in the video. "I think it's going to be eight weeks until I can walk without crutches, drive and all that. As far as training, they said between six to 12 months I'll be good to go."
He continued:
"I'm trying to find the blessing in disguise, a silver lining. Honestly, as soon as it happened and I hit the floor, saw my leg and the pain started hitting me, I tried to keep my mind on something positive that will come out of this. I'm hopeful something will come out of it that's good, because this is not fun. I can't believe it happened."
Weidman has now lost six of his last eight bouts, and his status in the UFC is up in the air.
"It's hard to image him coming back from this given the stage in his career, and that's pretty heartbreaking," Mike Bohn wrote for MMA Junkie. "Fighting seems like a distant goal at this point regardless."
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