C. Weidman recovers from head injury UFC 261. Photo: Reproduction/Instagram
Recovering from the serious injury suffered in the fight against Uriah Hall, UFC 261, Chris Weidman is confident in his return to MMA. Last week, the former UFC middleweight champion (up to 83,9 kg) underwent his second surgery on his fractured leg.
In an interview with the program The MMA Hour, on the North American website MMAFighting.com, last Wednesday (18), Weidman said that he has every intention of returning to the Octagon as soon as he completes his recovery, but only if he can compete at a high level. .
“If my body is telling me that I can't fight anymore, I'll stop. If I felt like I wasn't capable of doing the things I used to do, I wouldn't go to the Octagon just to get paid and get beaten up. I feel great. I felt great before this last fight, I felt incredible, I felt like I was the best in the world and I was ready to have great moments. So I'm going to do everything I can, take it one day at a time, to get back to that place. I will try to control the things I can control. When I get back to the gym and they say that my leg is completely healed and that I can do everything I did before April, I will definitely fight again”, guaranteed Weidman.
Chris Weidman, however, reinforced that, if he no longer feels like “the best fighter in the world”, it will be time to hang up his gloves.
“If for some reason I get up and my feet say: 'this is the best I can do', and I can't perform in grappling like I used to, exchange blows like I did or move like I used to move, I I won't be myself. I'm not going in there to embarrass myself. If I don’t think I’m the best in the world, I’m not going to fight,” concluded Weidman.
The former middleweight champion broke his right leg while trying to kick Uriah Hall No. UFC 261, suffering an injury very similar to that of Anderson Silva against Weidman himself. At 37 years old, Chris Weidman He now has three defeats in his last four fights in Ultimate.
