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Things got heated in Las Vegas on Saturday after Conor McGregor suffered a double whammy that not only saw him being carted out on a stretcher with a broken lower leg injury, but also having to face a TKO loss to American brawler, Dustin Poirier.

Poirier pulled out all the stops to overpowered McGregor to win their lightweight UFC trilogy fight. However, matters took a turn for the worse as the Irishman appeared to have snapped his left leg merely moments into the opening round.

According to AFP, the fight was officially ruled as a “doctor’s stoppage” at the end of the first round which saw McGregor failing to land a punch and stumbling backwards as his lower leg buckled underneath him.

Poirier then seized his opportunity to land a series of punches and elbows as McGregor was saved by the bell.

“This guy was saying he was going to murder me and kill me. I am going to leave here in a coffin… Murder is something you don’t clown around with. You don’t talk to people like that. I hope this guy gets home safe to his beautiful family,” Poirier said.

This is how Poirier described the incident:

“He fractured it on one of the checks at the beginning, then broke it with the punch,” Poirier said. “I felt something. He was kicking me hard. It was probably cracked then on the twist and punch [it broke].”

“When I was walking away and he stayed down, I looked down at his shin and I saw the bone. It was disfigured a little bit. I said, ‘Oh man,'” Poirier added.

Poirier said his payback was karma, as per AFP. “This guy is a dirt bag,” Poirier mentioned. “Sometimes these things happen.”

On the other hand, in an interview inside the octagon as he waited for the stretcher to carry him out, McGregor claimed to have been winning the fight before the accident took place.

“I was boxing his bleeding head off. Kicking his bleeding leg off. This is not over,” said McGregor.

As AFP reports, promoters said that McGregor’s injury was to his lower tibia and that surgery was expected to commence on Sunday in order to repair the damage.

This rivalry has been coming on for quite a while as McGregor also insulted Poirier’s wife in a tweet. Poirier is now set to get a shot at an undisputed title.

“We are going to fight again whether it’s in the octagon or the sidewalk,” Poirier said.

Meanwhile, South African MMA fighter Dricus du Plessis has recorded a TKO win over Trevin Giles (USA) at UFC 264 in Las Vegas.

According to Sport24, this is his second win in UFC and Du Plessis now has 18 MMA fights behind his name with 16 wins and two losses with seven of his victories coming by KO/TKO.

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