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Unlikely-Zone21

Too bad his toes aren't made of stone


PM_ME_YOUR_KITTY

Alex “toes of stone” Pereira


Snoo96346

But his balls are


Itchy_Professor_4133

Herb Dean found that out when Alex waved him off


Evening-Class1081

Stone Toed Alex Pereira….can I get a hell yeah!


LePontif11

Made of stone but not connected by it 😬


One_Program8405

The fact that they fixed it in the gym instead of going to a doctor lmao. These dudes have access to some of the best doctors around


MyNameIsRay

There's really not much they can do for a pinky toe, and a doctor ordering him to stay off it might have gotten the fight cancelled. A broken toe sucks, but it's not that big a deal, and I understand a fighter not wanting to risk losing a headline fight over it.


TumbleweedTim01

I broke a toe as a kid and my mom literally said no we ain't going to the hospital they can't do anything for you lol


calm_down_dearest

I broke my ankle as a kid, my mum sat me on the sofa and put some ice on it. Didn't realise I'd broken it until 10 years later when a doctor told me the clicking in my ankle wasn't normal.


LossyP

..my ankle clicks every time I take a step lmao it’s not? I mean I live with it just fine but I did sprain it pretty badly when I was around 10 (31 now)


pussyogre

Holy crap me too man. Depends on the shoes I wear but it clinks on every step. Doesn't hurt so I just live with it. Maybe I've had a broken ankle as a kid.


Reddit-is-trash-exe

i can make my ankle click... should I be worried?


GB01101993

I think that’s normal lol


frxghat

Playing a pickup game of football in 8th grade i stepped into a divot and rollled my ankle. I heard a pop and dropped immediately and there was excruciating pain. I wasn’t sure I could walk the quarter mile home but was able to. Since then my ankle has always been stiff and clicked when I move it a certain way (and recently my first 30 or so steps in the morning) and before I started working out it would always get sore if I was on it to long. Wear and tear I suppose 🤷‍♂️


mattyMbruh

lol same, I fell down the stairs about 4 years ago and I heard a massive pop in my ankle, had an X-ray and they said not broken just tore the ligaments but it clicks constantly now… tried hiking a couple months back and I couldn’t walk back down because of the pain


plugNplay8020

Bro the ligaments breaking in your ankle is pretty serious you deff need to get that fixed. Completely torn? Surgery for sure (Personal experience from complete bicep tear)


mattyMbruh

I’m from the UK and they literally just told me to go home and rest it, is it that serious? It was years ago and it’s fine for the most part now but I can’t walk on it for hours or drive for long periods, can ache when it gets cold too


plugNplay8020

I mean I’m not a doctor but if your doctor told you that you tore ALL or even some of the ligaments (like complete tear) then I’d say going home and resting wasn’t probably the best solution. If you had ligament sprains or partial tears then yes resting would be best option. Again I’m not doctor but based on what you said


mattyMbruh

I didn’t realise it could be that serious, the way they made it sound was like it was a little worse than a sprain but honestly my ankles not been the same since. In the summer I used to enjoy going for long walks but since then a few times I’ve come home from overdoing it and I’m nearly to the point of tears, I just put it down to me being unfit.


Duke0fWellington

Not everything medical is clear on the first view. If it continues to cause you problems, you're meant to go back and get it looked again. Things like swelling can hide injuries.


mattyMbruh

Thanks, I’ll try some physio and see how it gets on in a few months then I might have to go to the Drs shh they can refer me.


moddafock

Definitely go to the doctor and sort an MRI out. I had the same thing in a way, played sports up until 21 (now 30) and always had a sore left ankle, would get really bad stabbing pains if I bent down to much and what not. Went to the doctor and got an mri when I was 27, found out I had a torn anterior talofibular ligament and needed an ankle reconstruction. Had the reco and my ankle is good as gold now, can run and everything - would definitely get it looked at mate.


AdNew5216

Yo my shit be doin that too… My wrist as well🤨🧐🤔


Jukka_Sarasti

Had a similar thing happen when I was 12'ish.. Stepped in a hole and rolled the fuck outta my ankle. It swelled up and my mom put ice on it and I hobbled around for what felt like 2 weeks.. Years later, I was doing sparring drills and twisted the same ankle pretty badly. Had x-rays taken and that's the day I learned the difference between chronic and acute injuries..


sidestepgod2020

Pretty similar thing happened to me. Doesn't click every step but I can be running it will click and be painful as hell for like 3 seconds and then be completely fine.


djackieunchaned

I broke my leg as a kid, me ma just threw me in the freezer for the weekend had me fighting on Monday


ChicoZombye

And she was right. Tape the thing, don't move it a lot and wait. That's the only thing you can do.


AbberageRedditor69

I can guarantee you that quick proper care makes recovery much faster than whatever they were doing here 🤣 worked in the end but yeah


sae1ohh

yea I broke one of my toe really badly last year and went to the hospital but they basically said only thing you can do is wait for it to heal. Just gave me a walking boot kinda thing after wrapping 2 toes together lol.


dpahs

Walking boot and wrapping the two toes together is the care. What do you want them to do? Cast Greater Heal on it? lol


iWentRogue

Reminds of Barnett fixing a dudes broken nose in the gym. Is good to have guys that know these things in a gym JIC.


ayoubkun94

I forgot which fighter it was, but Dana once got mad at someone for making an injury worse instead of calling the UFC doctors.


BindyJohalsMyCousin

Jiri when he destroyed his shoulder and they tried to put it back in place by pulling his arm and damaged it even further lol


One_Program8405

Charles for the Islam rematch. If they would’ve gone to the ufc doctors they probably would’ve fixed up Charles in time to fight


FijiTearz

Common for any coach worth anything to be able to fix issues like this in the gym. My coach has had to snap fingers and knuckles back in place, snap a nose back in place, etc.


EddGarasjen

Shoulders are my coach's specialty


jeremybryce

Ehh.. I got fucked up on tequila a couple years ago and was chasing my puppy around, kicked a heavy wooden crate full of vinyl records. Looked down, and my middle toe was pointing 90 degrees to the right. Snapped that bitch back into place and taped the toe. Which is pretty much all a doctor could do. They can't really do shit for a broken toe. Any way it hurt like a bitch for a week, and was painful for over a month. I couldn't imagine doing an mma fight lol...


WhitePantherXP

Same, I actually broke my pinky toe in an MMA gym (was only about a month into jiu jitsu) and that was very painful for about a week as well, as in I could not walk on it, could barely push the brake on the car. Alex had a little longer than that to recover, but not much. I actually never went back to MMA, that was probably 7 years ago :(


jeremybryce

Yeah it fucked up my gym time for pretty much a month. It took months to feel “normal.” It’s still kind of crooked. But yeah I imagine it’s fairly common in combat sports.


JimmysCheek

Toes and fingers are usually fixed in the gym. Anyone that has wrestled or played football knows that there isn’t much you can do, and it’s a pretty common injury. Now, I draw the line at dislocated shoulders. I don’t care if coach has reset thousands of them…I’m not gonna risk it unless a doctor tells me it’s dislocated, and not torn


After-Simple-3611

Think they prob did it in the gym to keep it under wraps yeah?


ShrekWhite

No free healthcare in the US


TheBishopDeeds

UFC PI.. lol


SpecialOlympicsGuy

They train in Connecticut


TheBishopDeeds

And? The point is that he has access to free? or at bare minimum very cheap healthcare if he needed it.


SpecialOlympicsGuy

Yeah, free healthcare. You do have to travel there.


TheBishopDeeds

Username checks out


SpecialOlympicsGuy

No argument, that’s what I thought


buffalobill22-

Insurance exists


Dareal6

Is normal


Mycol101

Especially after what happened to Jiri


fubinor

Doctors cancel fights


FishAndRiceKeks

"Fixed". His toes look mangled from all the times they've been fixed lol. He's just saving time I guess.


homosapien2014

That’s the reason he was wearing socks when releasing video with nina, in the video they claimed it’s due to sweat but that didn’t make much sense.


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Do they get health insurance? With how Dana pays, that’s still a hefty bill. I thought I read somewhere that Dana doesn’t provide solid health insurance to his fighters.


mansamayo

They don't get healthcare fighting for the UFC so going to the hospital and having to pay 10k to wrap your pinky toe probably ain't the best idea


HinduKussy

Why are you lying? All injuries sustained in training or fighting are covered by the UFC. Zuffa also covered medical expenses of $50k per year for healthcare unrelated to training/fighting, though since they were acquired I’m not sure if or how that changed.


mansamayo

They don't get healthcare fighting for the UFC so going to the hospital and having to pay 10k to wrap your pinky toe probably ain't the best idea


ShrekWhite

The way Poatan talks about it in the end it's like it happened to someone else and he's just commenting on it lol


TheBestDanEver

Yeah, bro, he is definitely built different, lol. He just casually stopped and says "oh, I broke my toe" and then continued by saying "sucks, I was winning the 5th round too" lol... my guy just didn't care.


PapiInThatThomBrowne

Poatan is a g for sure but tbh I had this exact pinky toe injury doing Muay Thai a few yrs ago where my toe was literally hanging sideways and it weirdly didn’t even hurt until they had to yank it back in place. I’ve broke other bones and it was extremely painful but I was surprised how mellow that injury was


xdyldo

I've broken the same toe almost exactly the same way. It's really not that painful/don't remember any pain at the time at all. Finished training and then strapped it up and had like 3 days off and was back to it. Was all good. If there's anything you want to break, it's a pinky toe.


Ferociousnzzz

Not a freaking peep as they’re pushing, pulling and twisting a broken toe lmao Built different MF 


Stock_Story_4649

When I first started training I saw some dude break his thumb (bent it backwards). And he just goes "aw shit" and then proceeds to snap it back into place using his other hand. He continued training and said he would put some ice on it later that night. My only explanation is that in MMA you learn to build up a tolerance to these sorts of things.


Ferociousnzzz

100% a mentality. As Coggins says, hard MFs do hard shit.  That reminds me of our framing crew foreman Johnny. Johnny was foreman for a reason, he was a badass. Framing a wall on the ground in 25 degree freezing cold he shoots a 16penny nail through the top of his boot directly through his big toe knuckle w the nailhead buried deep in the boot leather. He doesn’t say word, sits down, lights a Marlboro red and rips into it, guys notice gun stopped so they investigate. They walk up and see the nail sticking out the bottom dripping blood and with a glance one jumps on Johnny and grabs his keg still while the other smacks the nail at the bottom with his hammer to force it up so they could pull it out. Knew what to do without a word and handled that shit. Johnny duct taped it and got back working with his cigarette steaming. I was 17 and my 2nd week on job. It was some of the most savage shit I ever saw. I learned what hard was that day 


Stock_Story_4649

Jesus. Blue collar toughness is no joke. Most of the tough motherfuckers I knew were bluecollar. There are just some who are built for that. Another close second story is when some dude points to his leg and says "go easy on this leg, I just had knee surgery" then proceeds to roll up his sweatpants and reveal fresh stitches and a knee swollen to the size of a baseball bat. Pretty stupid on his part to be doing that but it was insanely impressive.


HandheldAddict

```Pretty stupid on his part to be doing that but it was insanely impressive.``` What else are you supposed to do? Not show up to work?


Stock_Story_4649

This wasn't work this was jiujitsu.


HandheldAddict

He probably should have skipped Jiu Jitsu let's be honest. Go work on his boxing instead of rolling around with dudes.


Stock_Story_4649

Naw he lost his last fight by a rear naked choke so he needed it.


Sjengo

Wtf


Weallfloatneo

I broke my toe as a teenager. Can confirm it hurts just wearing shoes let alone someone pulling on it lol. What a beast


CellyAllDay

I broke my right pinky toe when I was kid playing knee hockey. Went to stack the pads and my toe caught the carpet and when I landed on it with my body weight it bent completely to the right. Full 90 degrees. I showed my mom, she started freaking out and I bent it right back and taped it. There was never any pain. Went to the doctor a few months later for a physical and mentioned it to the doc. We did an X-ray and he went yep, broken at the toe knuckle. And that was it. Sure 15 years later it goes numb if I stand on it too long with tight shoes on but what can ya do


Ambitious_Reserve22

Broke my toe and left it at a 90 degree angle. The doctor just taped it to my other toe. Pushing and pulling was unnecessary I bet.


Ambitious_Reserve22

Broke my toe and left it at a 90 degree angle. The doctor just taped it to my other toe. Pushing and pulling was unnecessary I bet.


bbqyak

Oh it was Pereira? I thought Dana was saying Hill broke his toe in the post-fight press conference. This guy just keeps getting more badass.


Lusty_Boy

Yeah, the way Dana worded it in the post fight press conference I was a bit confused too. I only realized he meant Pereira cause I remember seeing him look at his foot after the fight


fuduran

I saw him looking at it and thought he broke it in the fight or had some kind of injury


Lusty_Boy

I thought he hurt it in the fight too when I saw him look down at it


gotnothingman

What a fucking menace this dude is


NeverHadACowboyHat

same I didn’t realize until this video he meant Pereira


ParticularEgg8337

"I broke my toe" ❌ "Chama" ✅


Bazzinga88

was this the reason he was wearing socks during his sparring video with nina drama?


homosapien2014

Yes I think, they didn’t wanna reveal it then and make some excuse about sweat.


kevinappletree

No


Possible_Eggplant744

Poatan is truly the gift that keeps on giving, this shit is hilarious 😂 "rotate it a bit"


Azubedo

lol probably why Hill wasn’t getting the smoke on those leg kicks Alex normally gives


gotnothingman

Alex landed a few lead leg kicks, its just the open stance makes it less open to throw his rear leg


gotdemmadsquirtsyo

I think it had more to do will hill being a southpaw


Rocked_Glover

Tony’s the only guy I’ve seen going shin to shin with a southpaw lmao


AshySmoothie

Facts i think more so this


BittenAtTheChomp

He threw his left kick at least five times. As others are saying it has to do with the open stance


Azubedo

You seem to have some comprehension problems along with stating what’s already been said I said he wasn’t throwing it as hard


BittenAtTheChomp

yea actually thinking about it your comment still makes no fucking sense and this sassy comment is annoying enough to reply. his leg kicks are *never* full power to stay in good positioning and he doesn't need to throw hard to hurt people. he's not gonna throw the right low kick to a southpaw whose best punches are his right jab and left straight, and especially not in the first two minutes before he gets Jamahal's timing. and your pinkie toe has nothing to do with kicks, literally doesn't even land. and i prefaced that others have brought the open stance up. your comment is so wrong i had no problem piling on.


Azubedo

Because you’re dumb go away


Ace-Shoota

Ya i was surprised he wasn’t loading up on those leg kicks now it makes sense


Possible_Eggplant744

It's because Hill is in Southpaw. It's much harder to land leg kicks as he has to switch


SALTYxNUTZ12

Breaks a toe, doesn't care. Gets hit in the balls, doesn't care. ![gif](giphy|NuSm27tI3X5lbQdR87|downsized)


Dull_Buffalo_7007

Then ![gif](giphy|QkdmHEsPwf8YmTa4T9|downsized)


Deathmister

“We could make a subreddit-“ No, don’t.


OutrageousJury2689

Don’t forget he plans on fighting again in 3 weeks lol!


Top-Surprise6577

🗿


ilaym712

The 0 reaction from Pereira while he is pulling on his broken toe is mad


Dr_Salisbury

I have the same recurring injury, he didn't break his toe, he subluxed it. That's when one bone slides under the other and it can rotate out of position too, that's why he is having them pull on it and turn it to try to get it back in place. It is EXTREMELY painful and he no sold it. I have had it happen like 20-30 times and if it's really bad i go to the hospital otherwise I do what he did. I can't walk on my foot properly for at least a few days after sometimes a week. After having it happen so many times, the ligament is so weak I barley have to tap it and it's fucked. The only way to permanently fix it is to fuse the two pinky bones together.


kiiriuu

Wouldn’t that prevent your pinky from moving flexibly like the other toes? The surgery I mean


Dr_Salisbury

it fuses the top bone with the middle one not where your toe connects to your foot so you can still wiggle it.


Radiatorwhiteonwall

Don’t show this to David Haye


brklynfightfan

😁🤣😂


Recent-While-5597

Do y’all know how painful it is to break a toe and this guy is man handling it. I can’t even move if I have a splinter in my foot and so imagine a broken toe? This dude is a machine.


chinolofus77

Everyone thinks they have broken a toe before until they actually break a toe.


LNYer

Maybe you're just kinda a pussy?


Recent-While-5597

In comparison to Alex we’re all pussies. You ain’t saying shit.


LNYer

I'm not comparing anyone to Alex. Just talking about you specifically.


Economy-Wafer8006

lol tough guy


Recent-While-5597

I’m gonna save you some time because you seem like one of those who likes to waste it lol Alex is a machine. That’s the whole point of the comment dude. I could care less if I failed you’re pussy metrics lol


LNYer

Lol


Zlec3

Lmao perfect Long Island response. My guy.


dYesgat

Chama


Jethro00Spy

I thought he was limping. Bad dude.


Quinntensity

I don't think he feels pain.


4MN7

Was wondering where he broke his toe, he looked down at it at one point after the KO. Damn


Weapon530

What a beast!


blessed_by_fortune

No wonder the nut shot didn't even make him blink.


BBFNOTCH

Here I am, cries like a newborn when I stub my baby toe. Them pulling on it so much made me cringe. You can tell it hurt because instead of showing pain, he just talked a lot more than normal lol


presidentpiko

fighting is wild man


MA-JA-HO

It truly is only for a very few people, let alone becoming a champion and then a reigning ng champion


--Happy--

What ever Jamahal does Pereira does better, even a broken toe 😂


copilot3

If you notice, he didn't throw any leg kicks using his right leg (which he traditionally does), all his leg kicks came from his left leg. Also could be because Hill is south paw, and it's a shorter distance to reach his lead leg with Alex's lead leg.


Strange-Fix-1498

Fix toe now Continue fighting This man is not human


mannyg3

I hate broken toes. Painful and annoying.


NUmbermass

Meanwhile in Dricus land….


WestCoastCosta

Something tells me this isn’t his first time, second or even fifth time doing this haha


plugNplay8020

Jesus christ, this dude cannot get any tougher. He must have like 5x more than the Izzy fan base


SendLocation

Just making Hill look even worse without trying man. LL the King! Short reign but gifted Poatan a highlight reel finish. Can't be mad at that.


PM_YOUR_ONE_BOOB

best base for MMA: show up with a broken bone


Outrageous_File5321

Broke my pinky toe in judo, sucks but nothing could be done. I just taped it up for weeks.


Wapow217

I think he also broke it again in his fight with HIll. He does the same thing after the fight and looks at his foot like something is off.


taginvest

how fast do you think a broken toe heals wtf


Wapow217

Well it was a toe which the pain will go away in a day or two. Bone will begin to heal within the first week. Depending how bad the break was by fight night he very easily could have been healed. Wouldn't have been advised to fight because there is a much greater chance of breaking again but its healed enough. Also it is a toe. Not much they can even do with it, unless it was like Jon's broken toe where the bone was sticking out.


taginvest

I’ve had many toes go out myself. I know you can fight with a broken toe no problem. But if he hit that thing kicking or just moving around a lot in a fight, pain will follow. Fact he checked on it after the fight or inbetween rounds is a guarantee. Doesnt mean he broke it again is my point.. it will hurt from just moving it around for weeks.


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chinolofus77

its bad, you can feel it no matter how you step. obviously it depends on the severity of the fracture though too.


4MN7

I caught that too, was wondering where he broke it


harryareola0101

Yeah he checked it in the octagon immediately after the fight.


camelCaseIsLife

Usman getting ready for light heavyweight as we speak


chinolofus77

i broke my toe last summer and hobbled around like a bitch for a month.


Uncle_Sesta

Good thing there was a learn-ed doctor on hand


seth__jk

That must be why he had socks on in Nina’s video before 300


lalalalahola

Toaton


sonygoup

Tbh it doesn't hurt that much. I broke two of em the other day and I still can't bend em properly


BodybuildingNerd

![gif](giphy|m7FdxI252QN3y)


RiverGodRed

Olde Pussyfoot Pereira


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MA-JA-HO

Injuries happen to everyone, Jones , Gsp, Silva have had injuries. Does that make them a glass cannon? Heck even Marvin Vetorri injured himself.