Joe Rogan bewildered by crazy Conor McGregor decision that led to stunning UFC injury

Conor McGregor’s “crazy” move cost him the fight.The Irishman opened his bout against Max Holloway with a flying roundhouse kick, which immediately left him injured and forced his long-awaited return to UFC to be cut short just over a minute in.And Joe Rogan was highly critical of McGregor’s decision making in his first fight since 2021.“He just tried a crazy move.He tried a jumping roundhouse kick… if you don’t land in a good way with the supporting way, you put so much pressure on that knee..

he landed with his knee in the worst position,” Rogan said on the broadcast after the fight.Video of McGregor’s opening kick shows an awkward landing on his right leg, while he slipped following another kick subsequently after.With just under four minutes remaining in the first round, McGregor then began to attempt another kick but then felt his knee and stopped — leading the referee to call the fight.“He blew his ACL out with the very first move that he did,” Rogan claimed.“It sucks but it’s just, you don’t do that.”UFC president Dana White also said he and doctors suspected a torn ACL for McGregor, 37, whose last fight came on July 10, 2021 against Dustin Poirier.Rogan’s co-analyst Daniel Cormier believed that long layoff may have had an impact on Saturday.“When you’ve been away from that for so long, and you come back in there, it’s like you’re shot out of a cannon,” he said.“So you see these guys that have been gone for a long time do things that doesn’t make sense.

And I think that’s what happened to Conor.”Rogan, meanwhile, suggested that McGregor’s aggressive start “might have been the gameplan,” and that he possibly wanted to show people that he was able to kick with his surgically repaired left leg.McGregor, meanwhile, posted a devastated message to X afterwards and said he was fully healthy before this latest injury.“My head gasket is gone.Destroyed.

I had no injury / injuries going into the fight,” he...