{"id":384527,"date":"2021-05-06T10:31:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T17:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=384527"},"modified":"2021-05-06T10:31:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T17:31:17","slug":"chris-weidman-vows-to-fight-again-following-leg-break-at-ufc-261","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/chris-weidman-vows-to-fight-again-following-leg-break-at-ufc-261\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Weidman vows to fight again following leg break at UFC 261"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman has vowed to fight again after breaking his leg against Uriah Hall at UFC 261.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the most brutal injuries we have ever seen in the Octagon, Weidman&#8217;s right leg broke on the very first kick he threw against Hall. Weidman had surgery on the leg and he is expected to make a full recovery in six-to-12 months. Despite suffering such a horrible injury, Weidman is promising that he will defy the odds and fight again one day.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lLJFtoR3ToY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESPN.com&#8217;s Ariel Helwani<\/a>, Weidman said that he plans on returning to the Octagon and fight again. He knows it&#8217;s an uphill climb, but he&#8217;s prepared to do it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just so frustrating, and I know how much work it\u2019s gonna take, but yeah, this is what I want,\u201d said Weidman. \u201cI just know how good I am, and I want to be able to prove it. I don\u2019t have many more years left of being able to do that. My body never felt so good before this fight. I just can\u2019t believe this happened. It just sucks. I was really excited to show the world how good I am, to put it out there, but this happened. So I just want an opportunity to go out there and do what I know I\u2019m capable of while I still can,&#8221; Weidman said (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyelbow.com\/2021\/5\/6\/22422774\/chris-weidman-plans-on-fighting-again-i-100-percent-want-to-fight-ufc-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BloodyElbow.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I can get my body back to where I feel like I\u2019m that guy again, I 100 percent want to fight. I want to be able to demonstrate the talents I have and put on a show and also be able to inspire other people. Coming back from this is not gonna be easy, and it\u2019s way tougher of a recovery already the first 10 days than I could have ever imagined. So it\u2019s gonna be a long, long road. I\u2019m not gonna be able to walk for, I think, two months, put weight on it and stuff, so I am completely bedridden.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We here at <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\">BJPenn.com<\/a> wish Chris Weidman the best in his recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman has vowed to fight again after breaking his leg against Uriah Hall at UFC 261. In one of the most brutal injuries we have ever seen in the Octagon, Weidman&#8217;s right leg broke on the very first kick he threw against Hall. Weidman had surgery on the leg and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54477,"featured_media":316139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10095,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chris Weidman vows to fight again following leg break at UFC 261 | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman has vowed to fight again after breaking his leg against Uriah Hall at UFC 261.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/chris-weidman-vows-to-fight-again-following-leg-break-at-ufc-261\/\" \/>\n<meta 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