Gordon Ryan has revealed that he sustained a significant knee injury during his match against Felipe Pena at ADCC 2024, which may require surgery.
Ryan shared the news in an interview with FloGrappling, stating:
Yesterday, early in the Felipe match, I badly tore my LCL and when I cooled down I could barely even walk.
So I went to the hospital at like 1am yesterday, got cortisone shots in that and then did lidocaine before the match.
So that LCL, that tore like in the first ten minutes of the Felipe match.
He explained how the injury made his match against Pena difficult:
That’s why when I was trying to extract my leg in those 50/50 positions, the first two or three times I was able to just stand up and pull it out but when I was trying to heist after it got torn he kept putting weight down on my knee and on my hip.
So every time I went to heist up he put pressure down on the LCL and I couldn’t pull my leg out.
So I was like: “Do I pull it all the way out and completely tear it and then have a worse match tomorrow, or do I give him the time to rest?”
And I gave him the time to rest and it ended up that I wasn’t able to drown him like I thought I was going to be able to.
The knee may require surgery as well:
It’s not a 100% tear, but I think it might be torn enough where I need surgery.
Who knows, I’ll get back to Austin, rest a little bit and then see what to do.
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