“Dude, my knee is f*cked,” TJ Dillashaw gives an update on his injury, eyeing for the title fight in early 2022
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The former two-times Bantamweight champion, TJ Dillashaw returned to the octagon at the main event of UFC Vegas 32 against the number 2nd ranked Bantamweight fighter, Cory Sandhagen.
Dillashaw survived five rounds against Sandhagen and in the end won the fight by split decision. TJ Dillashaw suffered multiple injuries in this fight and he just had knee surgery last fight.
In his latest conversation with UFC Heavyweight Brandon Schaub during a recent UFC 265 fight companion, Dillashaw says, “I just had surgery on Thursday, I had a medial meniscus bucket handle tear, a lateral meniscus tear, and a PCL tear.”
“Almost everything. I’m just glad it wasn’t ACL. I actually am happy with the results, because it would’ve been nine months of recovery for an ACL tear. I’m looking at a three-month recovery right now until I can get back to good training, fight for the title at beginning of next year.” {H/T MMA Fighting}
TJ Dillashaw claims he knows exactly when his knee popped in the Sandhagen fight
Cory Sandhagen and TJ Dillashaw had a really intense war during UFC Vegas 32 and Dillashaw’s knee popped out during the first round of their fight. Talking about the exact moment when this happened, he added,
“I was in, like, a lazy leglock. We were in the 50/50 position, I was completely out of it, but I was just kind of chilling,” Dillashaw said. “I knew I won the round, so I was like f*ck it, I’m just going to sit on top, let the round finish out.”
“But then he turned and started trying to punch me, so I was like, ‘Alright, b*tch,’ so I came back for my own ground-and-pound, right? So I came in hard on my own leg and started ground-and-pounding, and he didn’t get me from the leglock.”
TJ Dillashaw continued, “It was when we got into a scramble and he tried to getting back to his feet, and I tried standing on top, so I leaned my chest over my body, and at the same time, my knees — my LCL just went, ‘pop.’” {H/T MMA Fighting}
“It was loud, dude. Like, I’m super surprised he didn’t hear it or feel it because I know I even heard it when it happened. So I knew that I was [hurt]. As soon as the round was over, I limped back to my corner and I sat down and I was like, ‘Dude, my knee is f*cked.’ Instantly, that was the first thing I said. They bleeped it out on TV because it’s ESPN and I said f*ck.”
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