Not sure why there is so much confusion.
The Dr. Performed an anterior drawer test, "Lachman" test.
This is not only an exceptionally accurate method to diagnose an ACL tear, literally anyone can do it.
Source: my wife is a doctor.
With over the phone instructions I was able to assess a coworker who has been given terrible advice from a "sports therapist" which delayed her MRI and surgery two months...
The real question going forward is what might ACs add procedurally to protect fighters from themselves? As with Thiago Santos, you're now one sprawl away from an alphabet soup tear and meniscus damage.
And Jesus Rogan. For a guy who talks about his ACL tear with every podcast guest, his incredulity to the doctors ability to assess was very strange.
You can see it give and bend laterally here. I'm not sure the punch is what put her down...