![]() Qileng Aori via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-27)Īriane Carnelossi def. Kevin Natividad via TKO (punches) – Round 1, 0:50 Chris Weidman walks out towards the Octagon prior to facing Uriah Hall of Jamaica in their middleweight bout during the UFC 261 event at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena on Apin. Tristan Connelly via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)ĭanaa Batgerel def. Karl Roberson via submission (heel hook) – Round 1, 4:55 ![]() Stefan Sekulic via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28)īrendan Allen def. Alex Oliveira via submission (rear-naked choke) – Round 1, 2:50ĭwight Grant def. Chris Weidman avoided any serious knee injuries in his fight with Brad Tavares at UFC 292, but he didn’t escape fully unscathed. Jimmy Crute via TKO (doctor’s stoppage) – Round 1, 5:00 Photo by Cooper Neill/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images. Chris Weidman via TKO (injury) – Round 1, 0:17Īnthony Smith def. Up-to-the-minute UFC 261 results include: The main card aired on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and early prelims on ESPN+. A great night of action at UFC 261 was marred by a gruesome injury to Chris Weidman in the early stages of his main card bout with Uriah Hall. The event was the UFC’s first in front of fans since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. UFC 261 took place Saturday at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla. During replays shown in the arena, the reported 15,000 fans in attendance let out seemingly unanimous groans. Weidman’s left leg was put into a compression boot and he was taken from the cage on a stretcher. The injury kept Silva out for more than a year and is known as one of the most gruesome injuries in the sport’s history. The only real difference between the Silva kick that Weidman checked, and the Weidman kick that Hall checked more than seven years later was left leg vs. In December 2013, in his first defense of the UFC middleweight title against Silva, whom he beat for the belt earlier that year, Weidman checked a Silva kick and snapped Silva’s leg. The fight was stopped immediately just 17 seconds in. Weidman then stepped on the leg and went down. When he did, Weidman’s lower right leg folded like it was made of rubber. The first kick Weidman (15-6 MMA, 11-6 UFC) threw, with his right leg, Hall (17-9 MMA, 10-7 UFC) lifted his left leg to check it. Former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman suffered a horrendous injury just seconds into his fight against Uriah Hall, and he was carried out on a. In perhaps the most horrifically ironic result in MMA history, Chris Weidman snapped his leg throwing a kick against Uriah Hall – the same way he beat Anderson Silva nearly eight years ago. Chris Weidman Suffers Gruesome Leg Injury.
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