UFC 264: Conor McGregor suffers brutal leg break, Dustin Poirier wins by doctor stoppage
- Irishman snaps leg in final seconds of first round, with Herb Dean waiving it off after the buzzer
- ‘Murder is something you don’t clown around with. You don’t talk to people like that. He’s a dirtbag … karma’s a mirror,’ Poirier says
Conor McGregor suffered a brutal broken leg at the end of the first round of Saturday night’s UFC 264 main event, with Dustin Poirier settling their trilogy via a doctor stoppage.
The former two-weight champ missed a punch in the final seconds, before stepping backwards only for his left leg to snap underneath him.
He fell backwards and “The Diamond” swarmed him with ground and pound looking for the finish, McGregor survived the onslaught, but then it became apparent he could not stand up to sit on his stool, with the severity of his injury suddenly obvious, and referee Herb Dean waived it off.
“He fractured it on one of the checks at the beginning, then broke it with the punch,” Poirier told Joe Rogan in his post-fight interview in the Octagon. “I felt something. He was kicking me hard. It was probably cracked then on the twist and punch [it broke].
Poirier handed McGregor the first knockout loss of his career in January, finishing him in the second round on Fight Island in Abu Dhabi and setting up a lucrative rubber match.