{"id":210549,"date":"2026-07-17T06:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/210549\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T06:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T06:46:14","slug":"israel-adesanya-suggests-conor-mcgregor-had-injury-before-ufc-329","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/210549\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Adesanya suggests Conor McGregor had injury before UFC 329"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israel
\nAdesanya<\/a> believes Conor
\nMcGregor<\/a> might\u2019ve entered his last bout in the
\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> injured.<\/p>\n

McGregor’s comeback ended after just 69 seconds when he appeared to
\nsuffer a knee injury early in the opening round, resulting in a
\nloss to Max
\nHolloway<\/a> in their rematch at
\nUFC 329<\/a>. There\u2019s growing discourse surrounding whether the
\nIrishman was carrying an injury into the bout, as he did in his
\ntrilogy fight against Dustin
\nPoirier<\/a>, which also ended in anticlimactic fashion.<\/p>\n

The former UFC middleweight champion pointed to footage from the
\npre-fight inspection, saying McGregor appeared reluctant to put
\nweight on his right leg before stepping into the Octagon.Israel Adesanya discusses Conor McGregor\u2019s right leg concerns
\nbefore UFC 329 loss to Max Holloway
\n
\nSpeaking on his “Precision with Mighty & Izzy” podcast alongside
\nformer UFC star Demetrious
\nJohnson<\/a>, Adesanya emphasized that McGregor was clearly dealing
\nwith some leg-related issue.<\/p>\n

“I have eyes,” Adesanya said. “When they did the replay and he took
\nthe Crocs off, he didn’t put weight on that right leg. He didn’t. I
\nknow he was throwing it (practicing kicks) in the locker room… I
\nhave eyes. When Conor took off the Crocs, as much as he said
\nafterwards, ‘I wasn’t hurt before the fight,’ I saw he didn’t put
\nweight on the right leg. And that tells me something.”<\/p>\n

McGregor has consistently denied entering the fight with a
\npre-existing injury, as has his coach John
\nKavanagh<\/a> and UFC CEO Dana
\nWhite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel Adesanya believes Conor McGregor might\u2019ve entered his last bout in the Ultimate Fighting Championship injured. McGregor’s comeback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[1162,17459,37,42],"class_list":["post-210549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-article","tag-https-www-sherdog-com-news-news-ufc","tag-israel","tag-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116933976537742492","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}