UFC 329 Post Show | REACTION To Conor McGregor's DISASTROUS Injury, Paddy Pimblett Stealing Show

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**Mike Heck** (1:08)
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Well, unfortunately, ladies and gentlemen, for Conor McGregor, a man who predicted the greatest comeback in sports history, it actually became one of the biggest nightmares it could have possibly become for Conor McGregor in the end at UFC 329
Not only did he lose his return fight, he suffered another leg injury on top of all of that, and it just couldn't have gone worse for the notorious Conor McGregor. I am Mike Heck. That is José Youngs here at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. We just wrapped up UFC 329 We just wrapped up the press conference. José, we were on our way to an all-timer, an all-time event here in Las Vegas. Everything was living up to the hype. Paddy Pimblett gets this incredible win. Everything is coming up UFC, and then the damn bell rang for Max Holloway versus Conor McGregor. Conor tried to do something outstanding, something memorable, hurts his leg. Max Holloway gets the win, not in the fashion he wanted. Talk about how this night ended.

**José Youngs** (2:08)
This might be the biggest buzz kill in the history of the UFC. Like, what tops that? The Ganderstown breaking his leg was tough. Conor breaking his leg the last time was tough. Nate Diaz getting the cut against Jorge in the inaugural BMF was really tough. These are all like recently, obviously, recently biased. There's obviously been a lot of like freak injuries and disappointments and stuff like that. But this is about as...
I'm a lot of loss for words. This is as weird as it gets, right? Because like we've seen Conor injured and we've seen him blow his ACL out. But it's quite literally the very first kick. He threw one kick and blew his ACL out and then like that was a wrap. Or we assume it's his ACL.
According to Dana White, we obviously don't have official word, but it's about as strange and annoying of a finish as I can think of in the history of MMA. In terms of like magnitude to what happened. Because obviously we've had like weird things like when Matt Madrione fought, I can't remember, in Bellator and got like... He like low blow the guy on the first kick and the fight scrapped. This is a little different because it's Conor McGregor rematch. It's his big return. He has two fights left. People think he's going to go fight for MVP on Netflix. Now all that is gone for the foreseeable future. He's what, 37, 38 with one leg now? Second catastrophic injury, third catastrophic injury? Second ACL?
It's rough scenes in Ireland right now.

**Mike Heck** (3:32)
100%.
And on top of that, when this fight was booked, the immediate reaction was like, why are we doing this? Max is going to clobber him. And then the closer he got to this fight, the more excited people got, the more people started believing in Conor's chances to do something crazy. It's 2026 We've seen nothing but craziness this year. And then for it to end like that, it's tough. But for Max Holloway, he wanted to sort of exercise some demons. He didn't really do that. But literally, in the record books, he has a first round TKO win over Conor McGregor. I thought he hailed himself incredibly well.
You don't want to be too down. You just celebrate as much as you possibly can, but you can't do it overboard. And I thought Max hailed himself incredibly well. And he feels like, hey, I'm going to be sitting out the rest of the year anyways. Probably going to run this back with Conor McGregor. So it's kind of tough, man. Do you think they're going to go back to this well and try to do this again? Or do you think the UFC is going to move on from this?