Morning Report: Robert Whittaker likely to need surgery, ‘jaw wired shut’ according to doctor

Robert Whittaker’s nasty submission loss at UFC 308 was simply as devastating because it regarded.

Khamzat Chimaev grew to become the primary UFC fighter to defeat Whittaker by submission on Saturday, locking in a terrifying face crank that had Whittaker shortly tapping out within the middleweight co-main occasion. It was instantly clear that one thing was unsuitable and later a photograph was proven of Whittaker’s accidents, which appeared be to his jaw and tooth.

Dr. Brian Sutterer, a preferred YouTuber who often discusses sports activities accidents on his channel, uploaded a video commenting on the grisly end and speculated on the extent of the accidents.

“What you’re taking a look at is his decrease row of tooth and these three tooth within the entrance are displaced into his mouth as a result of his jaw is fractured,” Sutterer stated of the photograph. “In order that’s not simply that the tooth fell out. The tooth are literally nonetheless hooked up to that decrease portion the place they’re anchored into the jaw, however the jaw is broke in a means that’s precipitated his tooth to utterly displace backwards into his mouth. It’s not like these tooth simply fell out or had been knocked out, no, the entire anchor website for these three tooth broke inflicting that tooth to displace posterior.”

As most would guess, Whittaker is more likely to bear a process to deal with the harm and ought to be out of motion for the foreseeable future.

“Remedy of that is going to be some sort of surgical procedure to place these tooth, that bone again in place,” Sutterer stated. “Plate probably braces throughout the tooth. Actual chance right here that Whittaker may find yourself having his jaw wired shut for a while, so this can be a severe, severe harm.”

It was solely the second time in Whittaker’s combating profession that he’d ever misplaced by submission, the primary occurring in his pre-UFC days in an October 2011 bout towards Kim Hoon. Whittaker later gained The Final Fighter: The Smashes event as a welterweight and finally moved to 185 kilos the place he grew to become UFC champion in 2017.

Now, it’s Chimaev who appears destined to put on gold round his waist after making brief work of Whittaker. Sutterer broke down the undefeated fighter’s unimaginable end and why Whittaker had no alternative however to sign his submission.

“Initially, it type of regarded like a choke, however really Khamzat’s left arm is situated on part of Whittaker’s jaw known as the mandible,” Sutterer stated. “The decrease portion of your jaw that strikes up and down, that’s known as the mandible. Your jaw joint then comes up from the mandible going as much as insert on the temporomandibular joint and so the half that strikes up and down, that’s the mandible, and your tooth on the decrease portion of your mouth are fastened into that mandible.”

“Primarily, he simply grabs on to Whittaker’s decrease chin and cranks backward so severely that it doesn’t choke him out, it leads to a break of his jaw. This wasn’t a jaw dislocation, there was some hypothesis about that after the struggle. Based mostly on an image that we’re going to point out right here, this was simply so highly effective that Khamzat broke his jaw.”

Whittaker gave his personal replace on the harm in an interview with Purple Nook MMA, saying it was solely his tooth that had been injured on account of Khamzat’s face crank.

“It wasn’t the jaw, it was the tooth,” Whittaker stated. “The tooth bought pushed in. I’ve type of all the time had free tooth they usually bought looser. It was the face crank. His forearm went straight on the underside tooth. I didn’t also have a second to show the pinnacle or something. It was on. It’s what it’s. I had them pushed in earlier than once I fought Dricus [du Plessis] as properly they usually’ve by no means actually recovered. It was from an harm once I was younger.”

Click on. Khamzat Chimaev knew the second he did one thing unhealthy to Robert Whittaker’s face.

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Rematch? Ilia Topuria and Alexander Volkanovski seem like on a collision course, yet one more time.

Reaper. Robert Whittaker releases a press release following his devastating loss.

Persevere. Rafael dos Anjos vows to come back again after injuring his leg at UFC 308.

Private. Dana White continues to be distinctly not a fan of Francis Ngannou.

UFC 308 post-fight present.

On to the Subsequent One.

Relive the magic.

Aftermath.

Professionals react.

On to the Subsequent One. MMA Combating’s Mike Heck and Alexander Okay. Lee decide future matchups for Ilia Topuria, Khamzat Chimaev, Max Holloway, and the large winners of UFC 308.

Nothing however respect.

Numerous love for the featherweight king.

Excuse me?

Observe makes good.

All the time prepared.

Sinister.

What are you able to say after a present like that?

Ilia Topuria doing the unimaginable and knocking out Max Holloway to show that he’s perhaps the very best pound-for-pound fighter on the earth. Khamzat Chimaev trying like he was in a unique league from Robert Whittaker. “Shara Bullet” giving us the primary double backfist KO in UFC historical past.

UFC 308 delivered in spades and there are nonetheless loads of large fights forward to shut out 2024.

Take pleasure in, MMA followers.

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