{"id":398167,"date":"2022-07-17T14:44:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T14:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=398167"},"modified":"2022-07-17T14:44:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T14:44:42","slug":"freak-accident-and-it-just-sucks-brian-ortega-laments-tko-injury-loss-to-yair-rodriguez-believes-he-was-winning-every-minute-of-the-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/freak-accident-and-it-just-sucks-brian-ortega-laments-tko-injury-loss-to-yair-rodriguez-believes-he-was-winning-every-minute-of-the-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Freak Accident, and It Just Sucks\u201d- Brian Ortega Laments TKO Injury Loss to Yair Rodriguez, Believes He Was Winning &#8216;Every Minute of the Fight&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC featherweight Brian Ortega spoke out following his TKO loss to Yair Rodriguez at UFC Long Island, which came after he suffered a dislocated shoulder. The end of the fight came in the very first round of what was turning out to be a hyper-competitive bout.<\/p>\n<p>Both men were looking to bounce back from losses they suffered in their previous fight and the unfortunate ending put a wet blanket on one of the most anticipated match-ups of the second half of the year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cHopefully next time we see each other it\u2019s for the title. \u2026 I hope you recover quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yair Rodriguez to Brian Ortega in Spanish post fight. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFCLongIsland?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFCLongIsland<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uOkbFARS09\">pic.twitter.com\/uOkbFARS09<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Danny Segura (@dannyseguratv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dannyseguratv\/status\/1548431456837332992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/i-mean-imagine-having-a-fking-conversation-like-that-dana-white-reacts-to-nate-diazs-being-held-hostage-comments\/\">\u201cI Mean Imagine Having a F**king Conversation Like That\u201d- Dana White Reacts to Nate Diaz\u2019s \u2018Being Held Hostage\u2019 Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brian Ortega labeled the defeat as a \u2018freak accident\u2019 and was disappointed that he suffered a dislocation despite there being no armlock secured by \u2018El Pantera\u2019. Moreover, he was confident that he was well on his way to winning the fight and lamented on the fact that this incident occurred for the first time in his career.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brian Ortega apologizes to Yair Rodriguez family: \u201cI\u2019m sorry this happened\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNDeportes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ESPNDeportes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFCLongIsland?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFCLongIsland<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EsdgwPOI2H\">pic.twitter.com\/EsdgwPOI2H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Carlos Contreras Legaspi \ud83e\udd81 (@CCLegaspi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CCLegaspi\/status\/1548425722271739905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c[Rodriguez\u2019s] grip was tight on my arm and it dislocated, and that was it. Like, no armlock, no nothing, but it just dislocated. Freak accident, and it just sucks,\u201d Ortega said Saturday on the\u00a0UFC Long Island post-fight show. \u201cIt\u2019s the first time it\u2019s ever happened in my entire career. That was the first time it\u2019s ever happened and now I\u2019m kind of like taken aback by it. I can\u2019t believe this is what\u2019s going on right now.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brian Ortega is hoping to run it back with Yair Rodriguez after his injury at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFCLongIsland?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFCLongIsland<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RevATEmEfq\">pic.twitter.com\/RevATEmEfq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESPN MMA (@espnmma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espnmma\/status\/1548476906374250500?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cEverything was going my way. Literally, I was winning every minute of the fight. I was sticking to the game plan, because I do get emotional. For one second we started hitting, we started throwing, and I was like, \u2018Alright, let\u2019s start throwing,\u2019 and I go, \u2018No, let\u2019s just stick to the game plan.\u2019 And the world saw \u2014 I was about to show what I do best, which is grapple and take control. And the second we hit the ground, it just, my freaking arm just f****** came out. And I\u2019ve got no words, man. I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/em> [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2022\/7\/17\/23240904\/brian-ortega-heartbroken-after-freak-accident-against-yair-rodriguez-i-was-winning-every-minute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mmafighting.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Brian Ortega will look to run it back with Rodriguez at the first opportunity he gets as he prides himself on his prowess on the mat. However, the extent of his shoulder injury is unclear and he could be looking at a long lay-off moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>More UFC news:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/im-not-interested-in-helping-him-joe-rogan-explains-why-he-turned-down-the-opportunity-to-have-donald-trump-on-his-podcast-multiple-times\/\">\u201cOne Thing About Izzy That Is Absolutely Unique\u2026.\u201d- John McCarthy Reveals a Skill That Separates Israel Adesanya From the Rest of the Division<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/ufc-schedule-for-july-2022\/\">UFC Schedule for July 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/one-thing-about-izzy-that-is-absolutely-unique-john-mccarthy-reveals-a-skill-that-separates-israel-adesanya-from-the-rest-of-the-division\/\">\u201cI\u2019m Not Interested in Helping Him\u201d- Joe Rogan Explains Why He Turned Down the Opportunity to Have Donald Trump on His Podcast Multiple Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow our UFC page for more key UFC updates and news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC featherweight Brian Ortega spoke out following his TKO loss to Yair Rodriguez at UFC Long Island, which came after he suffered a dislocated shoulder. The end of the fight came in the very first round of what was turning out to be a hyper-competitive bout. Both men were looking to bounce back from losses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":398168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}