Conor McGregor and Du.Photo: Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC/Getty
“It sucks. It’s brutal. It’s not the way you want to see fights end,” White said while speaking to reporters at apress conference, adding that McGregor would go into surgery on Sunday.
“His ankle snapped from throwing punches. He was fighting back,” White added. “It wasn’t like he was up against the cage defenseless…if his ankle doesn’t break, I think we get to the end of the round.“White added that another rematch between the pair is likely.“The fight didn’t get finished. You can’t have a fight finish that way. We’ll see how this whole thing plays out,” he said. “Who knows how long Connor’s out. Poirier will do his thing until Connor’s ready.”
Conor McGregor and Dustin Poirier.Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC/Getty
As for the cause of his injury, Poirier said that he hurt McGregor’s ankle on a checked kick, although the Irish fighter denied this, ESPN reported.
“He fractured it on one of the checks at the beginning of the fight, then it broke on a punch, for sure,” Poirier said during his post-game interview. “I pointed at him at the beginning of the fight, that’s when I checked a kick, that’s when it cracked. It was probably cracked and then something twisted with the punch.”
Both fighters are also determined to face each other once again.
“This is not over!” McGregor said after the match, while Poirer remarked, “we are going to fight again.”
They also faced off in 2014, with McGregor knocking out Poirier in under two minutes.
source: people.com
