If you were unaware, last night the UFC had a full fight card on Spike TV and in one of the undercard fights the above injury occurred. The guy's name is Corey Hill and he is 6'4'' and fights at 155lbs. The average height of guys in the Lightweight class is probably around 5'8''. Now this isn't the first time that a guy has broken a leg this way and unfortunately, it won't be the last but you have to wonder if this guy's ridiculous height/weight ratio might have made this worse than it would have been with a 5'8'' guy.
I don't know enough about anatomy to say much about this except that if I knew this guy I would have begged him to move up a weight class. His legs are so long that he's still an obvious target for leg kicks even at 170lbs, so why not move up to welterweight and use the extra weight to bulk up his leg muscles to protect those giraffe-like legs? He still would have a huge height advantage at 170lbs so whats the point? Also, as you go up in weight class, guys generally get a little slower which only could have helped Corey in his boxing. I'm not saying this wouldn't have happened if he was heavier but it's hard to look at him and not suspect that he was at a much higher risk for sustaining such an injury than other guys.
Having said all this stuff about Hill's ability to take a leg kick, I must note that it wasn't his opponent who threw the leg kick in this instance. The injury actually occurred on a leg kick by Corey Hill which means (as you can also see in the picture) that the contact point was the shin, where there is very little muscle on any person, no matter how big they are. But that really doesn't change anything because as I understand it, your bone mass increases as your body mass increases so if he was heavier his shin bone would be bigger, more massive idk the correct terminology but point is that it would have been harder to break.
I know I went on a bit of a rant here but I just feel like this may have been avoidable and now this guy is probably worrying about the next time he will walk when it's possible that as a welterweight he could be worrying about his next fight instead. And dont worry, I realize that in order for anyone to read this I'm gonna have to post it on some other blog but let me have my kicks. (no pun intended)
If you want to see a video of the fight and probably a little footage of Joe Rogan screaming "STOP THE FIGHT!!!" for a few seconds before anyone realizes what happened it's on the front page of UFC.com.
picture by way of bloodyelbow.com
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