McGregor released from hospital after surgery on broken leg

Conor McGregor has been released from hospital just days after surgery on his broken leg as Dana White confirms that McGregor will be out for year.

The 32-year-old UFC star underwent surgery at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles last Sunday but was given the all-clear to leave on Wednesday.

The MMA superstar shattered his left leg last weekend in his UFC 264 trilogy fight with Dustin Poirier which he lost via first-round TKO., 

"I think they just released him right now from the hospital about 10, 15 minutes ago.

"He will be in LA for a little while. I don't know if he's gonna fly home, or what he's gonna do.” UFC president Dana White told TMZ.  

The UFC’s first simultaneous two-weight world champion was under the knife for three-and-a-half hours as doctors placed an intramedullary rod in his tibia and a plate with screws to his fibula. 

Dana White is reportedly expecting The Notorious to be back inside the octagon in July 2022.

The Irishman is set to be on crutches for the next six weeks before he begins rehab.
In a video on Twitter, McGregor said: 

"I want to thank all the fans around the world for your messages of support.

"I hope you all enjoyed the show.

"I want to thank all the fans in attendance at the T-Mobile Arena. 21,800 in attendance. The place was absolutely electric.

"It was a hell of a first-round, it would have been nice to get into that second round to see what really gonna happen.

"But it is what it is. That's the nature of the business, a clean break on the tibia and it wasn't supposed to so.

"Dustin, you can celebrate that illegitimate win all you want, but you’ve done nothing in there.

"That second round would've shown all. Onwards and upwards we go, team

"We dust ourselves off, we build ourselves back, and we come back better than ever."

McGregor will now be staying indoors close to a year before the Irishman returns to the MMA.