News BREAKING: Jamahal Hill injured (ruptured achilles), relinquishes LHW title

Sounds painful. That division is a ghost town anyway.
 
Guess it's gonna be Jan vs. Pereira for the title then.
 
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Another example of how the UFC's structural championship inactivity constantly compounds itself and holds up divisions.

Yes, it is nobody's fault he got injured. But it is someone's fault he got injured after doing nothing for 6 months.

Same as Colby vs Leon and Jones vs Stipe. Not only are these terrible fights with completely undeserving challengers but they take forever to actually take place, making them screw up the divisions even more.
 
Whoever gets the title next is going to be the ultimate paper champion lol, that division is an absolute mess. Hall and Jiri absolutely deserve title shots in their return since they never lost it, Magomed Ankalaev IMO beat Jan but he drew for the title and hasn't fought since, so he arguably deserves a shot too. Presumably Jan vs Pereira is now given that vacated title?

This is about to be like LHW pre Jones where the title is flung around like a hot potato
 
Jiri/Ankalaev for the belt

With Jan/Peirera winner up next makes sense to me
 
could care less. Hill was like #8 and then they put him in with a 43 year old man for a title fight.

Jiri vs Ankalaev makes the most sense. Jan B kind of shot his own chances by admitted Ank won.

If the UFC are purely motivated by ppv numbers then Jiri vs Alex would be huge.

Not sure if Rakic even exists anymore.
 
Anyone know what the return time is on a ruptured Achilles?

Edit: thanks @ferrisjso and @scytheavatar . So sounds like 1.5-2 years and most athletes don't come back 100%.
That sucks.

You can count me among the folks that believe Jamahal Hill is an exceptionally talented fighter. His boxing is crisp and fluid, hands are fast and his punches have pop.

Respect to Jamahal Hill for honoring the warrior code that Jiri set. Pure class for both of those men. That's real champ shit right there, so fuck anyone calling either one of them a paper champ. Hope to see them both back healthy and still really want to see them in the cage.
 
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LHW is stacked but it also might be cursed. This sets up the possibility of having a FOURTH lineal champion(depends whose fighting for the belt). This is some boxing alphabet shit and unlike boxing this happened all because of bad luck.

LHWs been stacked for a few years but there's always SOMETHING preventing the best fighters from fighting each other.
 
jeff7b9 said:
Anyone know what the return time is on a ruptured Achilles?

Respect to Jamahal Hill for honoring the warrior code that Jiri set. Pure class for both of those men. That's real champ shit right there, so fuck anyone calling either one of them a paper champ. Hope to see them both back healthy and still really want to see them in the cage.
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1-2 years.

Medicines come a long way but until recently achilles was a career ender in basketball. This is MMA guys only have to fight a few minutes a year but it's a bad injury.
 
ferrisjso said:
1-2 years.

Medicines come a long way but until recently achilles was a career ender in basketball. This is MMA guys only have to fight a few minutes a year but it's a bad injury.
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Damn. That sucks.

Hope he comes back 100%
 
div is def cursed.

Only good thing is Jan/Alex coming and then Jiri ready to go probably end of year so figure winner of that fight vs Jiri for title in Dec/Jan.

It is also possible UFC does Alex/Jan for title just to have another belt on the card.
 
Holy shit, he might've done it during some basketball event it looks like the UFC(?) put on prior to UFC 290



huge if true

(sry if already brought up in thread, sherdog search function not working makes it too much of a hassle to look it up first)
 
ferrisjso said:
1-2 years.

Medicines come a long way but until recently achilles was a career ender in basketball. This is MMA guys only have to fight a few minutes a year but it's a bad injury.
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Its about a year but the problem will be he might never be the same again. You see it in basketball players after they get it their careers are basically cut in half.
 
Achilles is a fairly problematic injury … 5-6 months for surgery and rehab, then 5-6 months to slowly build back up to full athletic condition, so 10-12 months before he can have a full fight camp, therefore 13-15 months to comeback assuming no unexpected issues.
 
I feel like the universe keeps trying to make Anthony Smith champion for shits and giggles.
 
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ouch
 
jeff7b9 said:
Anyone know what the return time is on a ruptured Achilles?.
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Ruptured Achilles is the flat out worst injury an athlete can have, predicting a return time is difficult. Lots of athletes in other sports never recover from the injury cause the Achilles is an area of the body that doesn't get a lot of oxygen supply.
 
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