Corey Hill injured at Fight for the Troops
Published on: 11th December, 2008
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Corey Hill broke his right leg in gruesome fashion while fighting Dale Hartt on the undercard portion of last night’s UFC Fight for the Troops event as you can see in the picture above. Hill who was a contestant of The Ultimate Fighter season 5 as a Lightweight showed a lot of promise on the show, but his career as a MMA fighter may now be in jeopardy.
Matt Brown of Fight! Magazine also reported that Hill’s leg was set and needed an air cast to be placed before he was taken outside of the Octagon.
There is no word yet as to how serious Hill’s injury is, but as you can see this injury will have him out for a long time as it appears to be broken in several places. If you watch the video on UFC.com you can clearly hear Joe Rogan screaming at the top of his lungs, “Stop the fight!, stop the fight!”. Once Rogan noticed how serious the injury to Hill was. Also; Hill must not have felt the pain he fell and it took him looking at the injury to realize how bad it was as you can see in the screen shots below.
Corey Hill is a father and husband from what he revealed on The Ultimate Fighter and seemed like a nice guy who was intense, hopefully he will heal from his injuries soon and will not suffer any long term damage. We wish you all the best on your road to recovery.
UPDATE – Corey Hill out 18 months
UFC.com is reporting that Corey Hill will not return to action for a year to 18 months. He is currently recovering at a hospital with his family and is in good spirits after suffering a clean break according to the report. Best of luck Corey!
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OH THATS FUCKING NASTY!!!!
@Nemesis, it looks fake I thought it was photoshopped the first time I saw it
The ufc is pretty messed up for showing this on there website to get hits but I will have to watch it so I dont miss out talking about it at work (excuse)
I saw this before I dont think that corey knew his leg was broken look at the picture he is still holding hearts foot
@V for Vagina, I think corey is done now thats going to need screws to fix it now
Sick fucking pictures damn that sucks
@MMA BK1, this makes Razaks arm break look small in comparison
@Rider917, No not a good night to fight considering the injuries suffered
Going to move this to the featured post
@Narcisist, How the hell do you find all this stuff?
Damn he is done now his career is over theres no way he can heal from that he will be out atleast a year if he fights again
Man that sucks. Hope things work out for him and his family. There were an unusual amount of serious injuries last night, weren’t there? Corey broke his leg, another guy broke his rib(s), and yet another broke his arm. Damn!
It WAS a freakish night for injuries last night!! I was there, and things didn’t go as I’d imagined they would, that’s for sure. Since there were no really big names on the card, I wasn’t expecting the craziness that happened. Corey Hill’s injury happened early on… I felt so bad for him, and his opponent felt bad too. It took a long time for the medics to fix Hill up in the traction splint to get him outta the octagon.
And the last fight was nuts too! Koscheck knocking out Yoshida so quickly! And boy, was Yoshida down for a while too…. that was no quick in and out of consciousness thing!
I DVR’d the show on Spike while we were at the event…. I look forward to watching it on tv… I kept wondering what they were showing on TV to fill all of the down time between fights. Because there were some SERIOUS delays going on.
jebus.
My ol’man always said, “Hill must have hollow legs to make division”.
He could be right.
Drink more milk, dude. I’m not thinking that being in a highlight reel, for even someone as earnest as Hill, will be enough to sail him through the traction & physio. He’s gonna need to dig deep to find the motivation to come back after that…
Damn, I love me the Warrior-Athlete… but that just gives me the shivers…
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Shit I watched it om ufc.com last night and these pictures make it worse
Anyone hear the women scream when his leg snapped?
[...] Corey Hill injured at Fight for the Troops December 11th, 2008 [...]
This kind of injury happens easily when you abuse your body the way hill does just to make weight…
I find it hard to believe that no one warned him about this 155lbs at 6’4 ….? thats seriously underweight
he should be at 185lbs at the very least
you can’t be anorexic and be in contact sports i hope it was worth it for him…
18 months without income to try and get a negligible advantage on his opponents