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Medic headlined the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s recent trip to Serbia, facing Daniel Rodriguez in front of his home fans. Medic recently revealed that he injured his knee on the first day of UFC Belgrade fight week.
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Uros Medic suffered a meniscus injury during UFC Belgrade fight week
Medic was able to pop his knee back into place, but it soon began to swell. He recalled the stressful ordeal in a recent interview with MMA Junkie.
“We were just warming up and my knee popped out of place,” Medic said. “I was like, ‘Whoa, what is this?’ I didn’t feel any pain and I tried to straighten my leg out and it popped back in. And I could feel right away it started to fill with liquid, started to swell.”
Medic was diagnosed with a meniscus injury but declined medication, instead undergoing tissue work to reduce the swelling. As the Serbian-American limped through fight week, he hoped word of his injury wouldn’t leak. Medic ultimately made it to the Octagon, where he needed just 30 seconds to dispatch Rodriguez and earn a $100,000 performance bonus.
“We go to the P.I., get checked up, see what’s happening, and they’re like, ‘Looks like your ACL is fine, looks most likely like a meniscus injury,’” Medic added. “I just said, ‘Let’s not dig into this too much, if you guys can do anything for me to be able to walk and run … I’m not gonna take any medication or nothing.’ So they just did deep tissue work, soft tissue work, just trying to get as much fluid out as possible … It really helped me. I went into fight week limping, and I was begging God to not let people see me limping. This week was the fight; the fight itself was just routine work for me.”
Medic (14-3) is expected to undergo a noninvasive procedure for the knee injury and anticipates recovering within a month. The 33-year-old, who has never gone to the judges’ scorecards as a professional, is currently riding a four-fight winning streak, with all four victories coming via first-round knockout.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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