{"id":126994,"date":"2025-09-07T17:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/126994\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T17:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T17:09:07","slug":"tim-elliott-says-broken-leg-in-kai-asakura-fight-at-ufc-319-will-shelf-him-for-8-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/126994\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Elliott says broken leg in Kai Asakura fight at UFC 319 will shelf him for 8 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the middle of his best MMA stretch in years, Tim Elliott says he has to pump the brakes for a couple months.<\/p>\n

Elliott on Saturday posted on social media<\/a> that he broke his “bitch ass leg” \u2013\u00a0the left one \u2013\u00a0when he was kicked by Kai Asakura during their flyweight fight at UFC 319 in August. Elliott won the fight late in the second round with a guillotine choke, but apparently fought at least half the bout with the fracture.<\/p>\n

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The MMA rumor mills had been buzzing about a possible 125-pound matchup between Elliott (21-13-1 MMA, 10-11 UFC) and Charles Johnson (18-7 MMA, 7-5 UFC), but Elliott posted that his time frame is at least eight weeks out for recovery.<\/p>\n

For his part, Johnson seemed amenable to a future matchup. He’s coming off a bonus-winning finish of his own \u2013\u00a0a knockout of Lone’er Kavanagh in Shanghai just a week after Elliott’s win in Chicago.<\/p>\n

Elliott has won six of his past eight, including back-to-back bonus-winning submissions. Johnson has won five of six at flyweight, including three bonuses.<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: UFC: Tim Elliott out 8 weeks with broken leg from Kai Asakura fight<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the middle of his best MMA stretch in years, Tim Elliott says he has to pump the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,53753,641,29197,46039,638,82,46038,640],"class_list":{"0":"post-126994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-charles-johnson","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-guillotine-choke","13":"tag-kai-asakura","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tim-elliott","17":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}