Simply three years faraway from an accident that nearly value him his life, Liverpool, England’s Liam McCracken will combat for a UFC contract tonight on Dana White’s Contender Sequence.
The now 25-year-old skilled blended martial artist was hit by a bus and dragged 60 ft
“A pair who noticed the incident discovered McCracken beneath the bus unconscious and bleeding closely,” an article from BBC.com said. “They thought he was lifeless.”
The accident left McCracken with 4 fractures in his again, two slipped discs in his neck, three damaged ribs, a damaged pelvis, a damaged nostril, a ruptured anterior cruciate knee ligament, a torn meniscus and a number of different wounds.
When the accident occurred, McCracken had already gained 5 of his six skilled MMA fights. After climbing his approach again from close to dying, he went on to win three extra fights all by stoppage.
Now with an 8-1 professional document McCracken faces one in every of his steepest challenges but, Silvestre Sanchez (9-1).
“It was an extended highway and really up and down and if issues alongside the best way went a little bit totally different, I wouldn’t be again preventing,” McCracken stated of the accident in 2023.
“It was the longest six months of my life and I lastly began to get someplace after I needed to have knee surgical procedure, which is an enormous surgical procedure.
“So I needed to principally begin another time. That was one of many hardest elements.”
