Two and a half weeks before my last fight, I threw a front kick at a shooting Moldovan wrestler,” McGrgeor said (transcript via MMA Weekly). “When he shot and I threw the front kick, I threw it at his belly and my two toes, the baby toe and the toe next to it, bent back like this and stuck in that position. My doctor had to come into the cage had to stretch it and break it back into place and my foot swelled like a balloon.”
“Obviously the injury — the injury itself led me to, I had to half my work,” he continued. “I couldn’t road run anymore. I wasn’t [fully prepared]. My weight was too high. So when you’re cutting weight, if I can’t get my weight down because of injuries or what not, I have a more intense weight cut. So I was severely dehydrated. I didn’t sleep for 48 hours before the weight cut.”