“There was no check!” Conor McGregor screamed after his loss, trying to convince people that Dustin Poirier had nothing to do with his unfortunate shin injury. A few days later, he then claimed he had “multiple stress fractures in the shin bone” prior to UFC 264.
Two sports doctors doubted these claims, with one even analyzing the MRI McGregor himself posted to try and discredit what he calls an “illegitimate win” for Poirier. According to orthopedic sports surgeon David Abbasi, there’s “no evidence” of leg fractures on his MRI, and the scan was done on his ankle — not the leg — which has “no correlation” to the tibia break he sustained at UFC 264.