“I’ve always been a thin guy with not a lot of body fat. I walk around on normal days at 166 [pounds]. When I train, I’m in the low 60s, so it makes sense to cut a few pounds rather than fight these guys that are 185-200 pounds cutting down to 170. If they think this guy’s too skinny, that’s their opinion. I have people on the other side that say that my body type’s the perfect frame to win a world title…. Kick something as hard as you can. I don’t think it matters if you’re a big guy or a small guy, you kick something as hard as you can and it runs into science. Action and reaction. For it to snap — the perfect check, the perfect knee. If you noticed in the first round, I landed some killer leg kicks. That’s why he checked. This is why this happened.”
– Corey Hill sends a message from his couch via Sherdog.com to those who feel his 6′4″ frame is too thin to compete at 155 pounds. The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 5 contestant sustained a grizzly leg fracture when his opponent at UFC Fight Night 16: “Fight for the Troops,” Dale Hartt, checked a kick from hill during their light weight bout at the Crown Coliseum in Fayetteville, N.C., earlier this month. He is now out of the hospital, vowing to return if he can fully recover from the injury, which he feels will take much less than the 12 to 18 months as originally diagnosed.
Photo credit: Fight! magazine.
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I wish corey well!
Diddo.
AAAAHHHHHH!!!! Not again! So is every story about Hill going to show this hideous picture? Mania you have to put up some kind of disclaimer or something!!!!
Good luck to Hill and his crew.
I honestly NEVER want to see this picture again.
maybe i’m sick but i like the pic
He is a bean pole. This is one athlete I wouldn’t blame for taking steroids. haha
my 6 year old thought the pic was “cool”
Diddo? My 19 mth daughter can speak better than this. Perhaps you mean ditto.
Back to Corey – I wish him well but he did suck in TUF.
this is one of the crazyest pictures iv ever seen it was horrid to watch aswell i wish him all the best for the future….
As interesting as the image of a brown bear suffering a leg fracture in an MMA match would be, the word is GRISLY.
Never been a particular fan of Corey, but I hope he recovers his health – though I think this might be the end of his shot at a serious MMA career.
Sure, Frank Mir recovered from worse, but how long did it take? It’s one thing when you’re a former champion and still marketable even though you look like crap as you try to get back into the game, another when you’ve just been an undercard fighter still trying to make it.
I like Corey Hill, but I am afraid to say that in light of his ability (mediocre) a 12 – 18 month lay-off may be just too much to rebound from. I also really question whether that leg will ever be as strong as it once was. (Which obviously isn’t saying much).
That is a pretty grim photograph. I think perhaps its time to look into another career, something lower-impact, possibly involving Nerf.
i dont think he has the right frame hes a bit too tall. carrying all that heights in such a light body would make you weak as hell. i was never a fan of this guy but i wish him speedy recovery. if he decides to fight again, well he said hes too small to move up so i wont be complaining when he breaks another bone
Not sure if he is going to have such a speedy recovery. The hospital he went to doesn’t have the best track record. Had a buddy get hit by a car, broke his leg bad and to cut the story short. Cape Fear did the surgery and the bones weren’t put together correctly. After 3 months they found out the bones weren’t touching, which meant they weren’t healing and Womack( Ft. Bragg’s hospital) had to redo the surgery. Hope he got better treatment and wish Corey the best.
This picture is making me hungry! = )
The kick was technically poor, this is why it happened. You don’t get your leg broken half just because your opponent checks your kick… Did Hill break his mind too?
I don’t know enough about the physics of how being so slender may affect bone strength for someone competing at a high level of MMA. I only hope someone with expertise in this area is advising Corey Hill so nothing like this happens to him again.
I wasn’t a big Corey Hill fan at the beginning of TUF, but watching him mature on the show, follow directions, and continue to improve made me think that one day he’d be a handful at 155. I remember Jeremy Horn coming on the show and being very impressed with Corey. If you remember, he didn’t have a single fight before coming on TUF, I wish him the best and a quick and proper receovery before he comes back. He needs to make sure that his leg is really healed before even attempting to come back. He’s young and has plenty of time to do it all right – recovery and physical therapy.
My 2 cents . . .
im just a dumb tradesman and no doctor but i dont think muscle would have done squat where the leg broke. im relatively thick all over and my leg is pretty much just bone in the front and a tendon in the back.
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I don’t usually comment negatively on someone but come on Robert… your words mean what to whom???
He’s too tall and thin to fight at 155 without a doubt!..
Corey’s been thin his whole life and he was not weak when he won 3 state wrestling titles….love how “couch potatoes” got the whole fight game figured out.
wrestling doesn’t include kicks if im not mistaken..
lets face it if he was knocking everyone out and the champ for years, his body typed would be “the best body type possible” for 155. a freakish accident happens and right away he is too skinny! just a reminder people if he was to gain 150 lbs his bones would still be the same thickness. answer this question honestly. can you tell by a skeleton if they were fat? answer is no. because your bone doesnt get fat! then man has a dream body for any 155 fighter. if bj penn had that size he wouldve won against machida when they fought. its a shame it happened to him. he was new to the game but looking improved every time he came out.im hoping he comes back strong and heels fine.