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26/02/09 - Markham 'fought Hardy with collapsed lung'
Almost all professional fighters carry some sort of nagging injury into their bouts, but not many take it quite as far as Rory Markham allegedly did at UFC 95.
The Miletich welterweight competed against Dan Hardy with a collapsed lung, according to his friend Sam Sheridan, author of ‘A Fighter’s Heart’.
“Rory's a friend of mine, and he's NOT making any excuses, but this is a pretty crazy story. He had a terrible weight cut in London, and cramped so badly after the weigh-ins that one of his lungs collapsed. He didn't even know it. He just said he was feeling pretty shitty,” Sheridan wrote on The Underground forum earlier.
“After the knock-out, he got x-rayed, and the Doc said "Can I X-ray your chest, it looks weird"?" and Rory said sure, and they said "You have a collapsed lung." He had to stay in London 2 days for observation, and I think he's got 120 day medical suspension.
“The only thing he said to me was "That was the worst weight cut I've ever done...I know what hell is like."
Sheridan concluded: “I'm not making excuses for him, and Rory definitely isn't--he knows it wasn't his night. Dan Hardy's a tough guy. But that is some crazy shit. [In my opinion] he's got to make the switch to 185.”
Markham was knocked out by Hardy in the second minute of the first round, putting the Brit’s UFC record to 2-0.
Hardy has since been provoking Marcus Davis via the MMA media and that fight looks like it may be made for UFC 99, which is scheduled to take place in Germany.
John Joe O’Regan
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