{"id":835678,"date":"2026-07-31T13:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/835678\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T13:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:18:20","slug":"doctor-says-conor-mcgregor-knee-injury-doesnt-seem-to-add-up-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/835678\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor says Conor McGregor knee injury \u2018doesn\u2019t seem to add up 100%\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re three weeks out from Conor McGregor\u2019s disastrous UFC 329 comeback which saw the Irish sports star blow his knee out on the first kick thrown against Max Holloway. Not much information has been shared on what exactly happened. The only thing we\u2019ve been told is \u201cThe Notorious\u201d suffered an ACL and meniscus tear<\/a> and will be out for a year<\/a> following surgery.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s been a lot of conspiratorial voices out there questioning whether McGregor came into the Holloway fight injured,<\/a> or if he went down and quit the moment the fight started. Now we have people questioning the true severity of his knee injury after McGregor posted multiple videos working out the injured knee. And these questions aren\u2019t just coming from quacks.<\/p>\n

Dr. Brian Sutterer has been providing detailed breakdowns<\/a> of UFC fighter injuries for years,<\/a> and had some interesting comments regarding the latest batch of McGregor workout videos.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can see he\u2019s sitting with his knee bent, it\u2019s not like he\u2019s got his leg out straight,\u201d Sutterer said in a new YouTube video. \u201cSo right away, he had pretty darn good range of motion. Again, not like this is an impossible thing to see, but it\u2019s something that is not really typical when you have a full ACL rupture.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe then see Conor doing these really aggressive knee extensions and his right knee looks fantastic. I mean, there\u2019s like no swelling whatsoever in his right knee. Again, range of motion looks fantastic. He\u2019s putting a lot of load through it \u2026 At this point maybe like a week and a half out from his injury, the knee looks fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n

At this point, Sutterer questioned whether McGregor had suffered a torn ACL or simply sprained it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis does not look in any way, shape, or form like an acute ACL rupture \/ torn meniscus, on-your-way-to-surgery knee,\u201d Sutterer said. \u201cAgain, professional, elite athletes can heal and really kinda cope and compensate with a lot of different stuff. But seeing this is, like, wow. Like, that\u2019s really bizarre and impressive that he already looks this good with this much muscle tone and bulk, range of motion, no swelling, that quickly, after a possible full ACL tear.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most recent exercise video we saw was him just cranking it out on this rower. I mean, you would look at this and not even know which knee was injured. Like, this range of motion to get that deep into flexion is fantastic. To be able to push off like that seemingly pretty equal through both knees? Again, quad activation looks fantastic. Doesn\u2019t seem to be even the slightest bit of swelling in his knee.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very possible that this is an ACL sprain that hopefully doesn\u2019t need a full ACL reconstruction,\u201d Sutterer concluded. \u201cBest case scenario is that the ACL is injured, but not to the point that it needs surgery. I don\u2019t know why they would still be waiting to go in and do surgery on the meniscus if the meniscus needed surgery.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sutterer finished off his video saying he hoped all this meant McGregor would be able to return sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope I\u2019m not being too conspiratorial here,\u201d he said. \u201cI really don\u2019t think that Conor is lying about this injury. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s making up an injury and he\u2019s not actually hurt. I think there\u2019s a real injury. I just don\u2019t think we maybe, necessarily have all the facts and know all the details of it. Because it doesn\u2019t seem to add up 100% with what we\u2019re seeing timeline wise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re three weeks out from Conor McGregor\u2019s disastrous UFC 329 comeback which saw the Irish sports star blow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-835678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835678","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=835678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}