{"id":565163,"date":"2026-03-26T07:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/565163\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T07:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:38:15","slug":"mma-fighter-liam-mccracken-opens-up-about-his-road-to-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/565163\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA fighter Liam McCracken opens up about his road to recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An MMA fighter who was unable to walk after being hit by a bus has said his biggest motivation during his recovery was to be able to hold his daughter again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liam McCracken was building a promising career in mixed martial arts but his life changed in a split second when he was hit by a bus while out training in Huyton on Merseyside in September 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old, from Prescot, Liverpool, suffered a broken neck, legs, ribs, pelvis and nose after being dragged 18m (60ft). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was getting to the point of becoming an elite athlete, and then I went from that to not being able to walk, so it was obviously very difficult,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An MMA fighter who was unable to walk after being hit by a bus has said his biggest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-565163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}