{"id":105278,"date":"2014-07-17T05:04:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T12:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=105278"},"modified":"2022-02-06T09:51:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T17:51:56","slug":"weidman-nearly-pulled-out-of-machida-bout-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/weidman-nearly-pulled-out-of-machida-bout-with-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Weidman Nearly Pulled Out Of Machida Bout With Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?attachment_id=105279\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-105279\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-105279\" title=\"Chris Weidman Lyoto Machida\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Chris-Weidman-Lyoto-Machida.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Chris-Weidman-Lyoto-Machida.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Chris-Weidman-Lyoto-Machida-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Chris-Weidman-Lyoto-Machida-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I went through a two-day period where I was very nervous, and felt, you had mentioned my hand, and I thought I was going to have to pull out of the fight. I couldn&#8217;t touch my thumb to any of my fingers. I couldn&#8217;t grab anything, I couldn&#8217;t squeeze a toothbrush, couldn&#8217;t brush my teeth. I could do it with my right hand, but not my left. But you know, you just start figuring things out. Like, how bad this if I can&#8217;t do these little things? So I kind of was scaring the crap out of myself.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em>&#8230;<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;So they did the MRI and I had to wait on the results, and I was really just pissed off, and I was depressed,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I was like, how am I going to deal with this? It was a bad situation. If it&#8217;s not broken, obviously I&#8217;m not pulling out, but how am I going to train for these last two weeks. I can&#8217;t even touch my fingers together and I can&#8217;t obviously punch. It was a tough day with that. It was ligaments that were all messed up and sprained. So, I got cortisone injections, which they even told me probably won&#8217;t help much because it&#8217;s not really an inflammation issue. But I asked them to do it anyway, just anything that might help.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodyelbow.com\/2014\/7\/15\/5902395\/ufc-175-weidman-almost-pulled-out-machida-fight-hand-injury-wants-vitor-belfort-next-mma-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;The MMA Hour&#8217;<\/a> UFC middleweight champ Chris Weidman revealed a pre-fight secret he delt with prior to his most recent victory over Lyoto Machida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I went through a two-day period where I was very nervous, and felt, you had mentioned my hand, and I thought I was going to have to pull out of the fight. I couldn&#8217;t touch my thumb to any of my fingers. I couldn&#8217;t grab anything, I couldn&#8217;t squeeze a toothbrush, couldn&#8217;t brush my teeth. 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