Conor McGregor still haunted by catastrophic leg break ahead of UFC 329? ‘It can affect your head’

Jul 10, 2021; Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; Conor McGregor holds his leg after suffering an injury against Dustin Poirier during UFC 264 at T-Mobile Arena. Mandatory Credit: Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images

Chris Weidman is something of an expert when it comes to broken legs.

Not only can the former middleweight champion dish them out, he can also receive them. That’s why he expects former UFC two-division champion, Conor McGregor, to face his own share of mental hurdles ahead of the Irishman’s Octagon return, rumored for UFC 329 during International Fight Week this summer in Las Vegas.

“He’s in the drug-testing pool,” Weidman said on UFC on Paramount’s YouTube channel. “For you to come off of stuff, get back in that drug-testing pool, you’d better fight. Otherwise, you’re just going to feel worse than you used to feel for no reason. So, I think he fights, for sure. [The leg break] was in 2021. He’s had enough time to recover, but I will say, your first time coming back — because I went through a very similar injury — it is hard to be the person you were beforehand, for sure.”

Weidman snapped his leg in half at UFC 261 back in April 2021 … just three months before . Weidman, now 41, returned in 2023 and competed three more times before retiring from UFC, though he later .