One of my favorite fights, ever! The post fight speech was so sweet! It brought me to tears, and still does to this day. @ChaelSonnen That’s My Champ! 🥊💯 #TheBadGuy#TeamDarkside
Update: It was acl and meniscus. It is the same injury as the first Holloway fight, only this time the opposite leg. Quite shocking. I returned to competition within 9 months to fight Diego Brandao back then. With today’s regenerative medicine advancements and improved training methods it is well within my realm to return by next summer. I am walking without a crutch. I done leg extension machine work the other day to no issue. So I can walk without aid, and activate my quad under resistance. All very positive. I am maximum discipline and have maintained it fully since the bout. I wonder was I saved from something worse here. I believe so. I would have attended the after party as “the man” and who knows then. I believe I was saved.
Thank you God!
On we go, no sad stories. Thank you for the support and well wishes everyone, your health is your wealth ❤️🙏
Update: It was acl and meniscus. It is the same injury as the first Holloway fight, only this time the opposite leg. Quite shocking. I returned to competition within 9 months to fight Diego Brandao back then. With today’s regenerative medicine advancements and improved training methods it is well within my realm to return by next summer. I am walking without a crutch. I done leg extension machine work the other day to no issue. So I can walk without aid, and activate my quad under resistance. All very positive. I am maximum discipline and have maintained it fully since the bout. I wonder was I saved from something worse here. I believe so. I would have attended the after party as “the man” and who knows then. I believe I was saved.
Thank you God!
On we go, no sad stories. Thank you for the support and well wishes everyone, your health is your wealth ❤️🙏
PEOPLE NEED TO LEAVE THIS MAN ALONE.
HE HAS A PAST. WE ALL FUCKIN DO. HE’S DOING HIS BEST. GOD FEARING MAN. HE IS A FAMILY MAN. WE ALL AIN’T PERFECT.
THE IRISH PEOPLE TALKING SHITE ABOUT MAC ARE THE WORST. FROM WARRIORS TO PUSSIES.
ALL THE HATE TOWARDS MAC IS COMPLETELY POLITICALLY RELATED. I KNOW MORE ABOUT IRISH POLITICS THAN ANY AMERICAN. THEY’RE FOOKIN BUMS. THE WHOLE LOT OF EM.
AND THE PEOPLE WHO VOTE FOR THEM ARE EVEN WORSE. COMPLETE PUSSIES AFRAID OF THEIR OWN DAMN SHADOWS.
🚨 TWO YEARS AGO TODAY: They Tried to ASSASSINATE President Trump, But God Had Other Plans
July 13, 2024, the day radical evil took a shot at our leader in Butler, PA. Blood on his ear, Secret Service heroics, and Trump rising with fist in the air: "FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!"
The left's rhetoric fueled the hate, media downplayed it, but Trump survived for a reason. Stronger than ever, leading America First again.
We remember the victims, honor the heroes, and thank God for protecting President Trump. Never forget, they can't stop what God has blessed.
President @realDonaldTrump reflects on Butler two years later:
"God was with me."
"I said it's either the biggest, most violent mosquito in history or I just got shot." 😂
“It’s rigged!”
“It’s fake!”
“The fighter threw the fight for money or fame.”
You know how much trouble you get in if anything is off or the fight is rigged in a professional fight, especially ones where huge money is involved? The FBI is all over this sport presently, if you’ve been paying attention. If someone’s going to rig a fight, 2026 would be the absolute dumbest time to do that.
It’s just REAL. And real outcomes aren’t always fun.
The stakes wouldn’t be so high and the sport so amazing if we all got the storybook ending we think we want. That’s what makes this sport great: the highs, the lows, and the unknowns.
Any fighter who gives it their all, steps into a fight turns their life around, to become the best version of themselves and to inspire others has my full respect.
It’s one of the hardest sports in the world and the most vulnerable. And to reach career heights and then come back after a 5, 10, or 17 year layoff takes balls most people don’t even know exist, especially when it’s not something you have to do but something you choose to do.
You wonder, “God, why did it have to go that way after all the sacrifice and hard work?!” But ultimately His will be done. Then you live, you learn, and you move forward.
The journey isn’t over, in a way it’s a whole new beginning. If you’re not failing, you’re not trying.
Respect.
My head gasket is gone. Destroyed. I had no injury / injuries going into the fight. I was throwing kicks, planted and jumping, all throughout camp as well as backstage before the fight. This came out of nowhere. I am beyond dark here. I can only describe it as hell.
I was so sharp and so ready for this fight I cannot believe what has happened. The talk of me being off while walking in to the fight is nonsense. I was calm, ready, and confident. I am in shock what has taken place. The devil is literally staring at me right in front of my face here. I am not engaging. I will be at church tomorrow.
I will overcome this.
I will not be deterred.
I will return.