There’s a reason Conor McGregor plodded forward and used little to no footwork in his lightweight title bout with Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 229.
Speaking to ESPN’s Ariel Helwani in a recent interview, ‘The Notorious’ said he entered the contest with a broken foot and was unable to train seriously in the final weeks leading up to the bout.
“You must understand my foot was a balloon when I walked into that fight. I’ve got all this footage backed up from that entire camp. I broke my foot three weeks out from that fight. My foot was a balloon,” McGregor said, per MMA Fighting’s Damon Martin.