Chris Weidman: The Return | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

In April 2021, Chris Weidman suffered arguably the worst injury in UFC history. Over the next two years, Stephania Bell  | dG1fSER3bnZmc25mQjg

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00:00The adversities brought us here to give us an opportunity to freaking shine, but whatever

00:18happens, there's no pressure on you.

00:21You will be a champion, no matter what the outcome, but we pray for victory.

00:27Let's go wide, man.

00:28Let's go wide, man, man.

00:31Let's go wide, man.

00:34You said when you walk in and they lock the gate, there's a feeling.

00:38It's nothing like it.

00:39What is that feeling?

00:41It's like go time.

00:44There's no running at that point.

00:47The time that you've been visualizing for weeks and weeks and weeks, months and years

00:53is here.

00:57It's here.

01:05Going against Uriah Hall, I was very focused.

01:09Familiar foes here.

01:11Blue trunks for Wadden, black trunks for Uriah Hall.

01:1517 seconds into that fight, I step and I kick as hard as I possibly can.

01:21Oh my God!

01:23And I'm like, what the?

01:24There's no way that's my leg.

01:26You never want to see a guy have that type of injury.

01:30The terminology I would use would be that it's catastrophic for our athletes.

01:35I had no idea, like, were they going to amputate his leg?

01:38I didn't know if I was going to be able to walk the right way again, you know, or at all.

01:43You don't know the totality of the recovery and the rehab mentally and physically.

01:47It requires multiple surgeries.

01:49It really looked like he was never going to fight again.

01:52I'm not doing this just to get a couple fights in.

01:54The motivation is to shock the world.

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