UFC 261 Chris Weidman snaps leg throwing kick vs Uriah Hall same way he beat Anderson Silva - Video

In perhaps the most horrifically ironic result in MMA history, Chris Weidman snapped his leg throwing a kick against Uriah Hall – the same way he beat Anderson Silva nearly eight years ago.

The first kick Weidman (15-6 MMA, 11-6 UFC) threw, with his right leg, Hall (17-9 MMA, 10-7 UFC) lifted his left leg to check it. When he did, Weidman’s lower right leg folded like it was made of rubber. Weidman then stepped on the leg and went down. The fight was stopped immediately just 17 seconds in.

.@ochocinco was sick to his stomach after the Chris Weidman injury pic.twitter.com/DSiG6z7pPu

— br_betting (@br_betting) April 25, 2021

In December 2013, in his first defense of the UFC middleweight title against Silva, whom he beat for the belt earlier that year, Weidman checked a Silva kick and snapped Silva’s leg. The only real difference between the Silva kick that Weidman checked, and the Weidman kick that Hall checked more than seven years later was left leg vs. right leg.

Nah son... I can only imagine what Chris Weidman is going through right now#HallWeidman #WeidmanHall #UFC261 pic.twitter.com/i8jMoGBad2

— Jamel Herring (@JamelHerring) April 25, 2021

Weidman’s left leg was put into a compression boot and he was taken from the cage on a stretcher. During replays shown in the arena, the reported 15,000 fans in attendance let out seemingly unanimous groans. The event was the UFC’s first in front of fans since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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