![]() ![]() It’s in my ankle, but it’s a continuation of my leg bone, into my ankle.” said in 29 years, he’s never seen it in combat sports. It’s not like a typical combat sports break. There’s another bone that’s dislocated, that won’t go back in until they fix it. “It’s in such a weird spot, they can’t even plate it,” Smith said. ![]() Now, Smith needs to have surgery which will keep him sidelined for an indeterminate amount of time, especially given the uniqueness of the injury. It’s an unfortunate injury for Smith, who is coming off recovering from a separate leg injury prior to this one and was one a roll in the division, having won three fights in a row heading into UFC 277. I know in the media and whatever, it’s been reported it was from a kick. Then right after that, he banged that inside kick real hard. “I stepped on his foot and he pulled it out, and then it drug my body forward and my ankle kind of went all funny. So we were having that lead foot battle and it happened twice. right before he kicked me and my leg went numb, I was stepping on his foot. It could have been me stepping back funny on it. So they don’t actually know when it happened. “From where it is, it’s not something - from outward trauma, you’re not going to break that bone. “There’s no way that break was caused from a kick,” Smith said on the Believe You Me podcast. In the aftermath, many suggested Ankalaev caused the fracture either by checking a leg kick or landing one of his own, but “Lionheart” insists it was just a bad break. Though he tried to fight through the injury, Smith was unable to and was subsequently stopped by strikes in the second frame of the contest. Smith faced off against Ankalaev in the main card opener for UFC 277, breaking his leg at the end of the first round. You may have to select a menu option or click a button.Anthony Smith says Magomed Ankalaev was not the cause of his leg injury at UFC 277.
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