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Conor McGregor Loses To Dustin Poirier in TKO After Breaking His Ankle The highly anticipated UFC mixed martial arts(MMA) main event Saturday, at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, ended anticlimactically in a painful first round. Poirier hit Conor McGregor with a combination in the first round. And when McGregor went to plant his left foot and his leg buckled, sending him to the mat. Poirier followed up with punches on the ground as time expired in the round. With McGregor clearly hurt, referee Herb Dean called the lightweight bout. The official result was Poirier by TKO (doctor's stoppage) at 5:00 of the first round. A stretcher was brought in to transport McGregor to the hospital. The video replay showed McGregor's lower leg bent gruesomely as his foot hit the canvas. UFC president Dana White later said the injury was to McGregor's lower tibia and that he will have surgery Sunday morning. After the match, while still sitting in the octagon as trainers inspected his lower left leg, McGregor said: "This is not over! If I have to take this outside with him, I'll go outside." Poirier said he wished he'd gotten a stoppage by strikes, but "a win is a win." "I felt like I was control of the fight and I feel like his leg is the result a defensive move, me checking it, a kick," he said. McGregor (22-6) and Poirier (28-6) are longtime rivals. In 2014, McGregor defeated Poirier at UFC 178 with a first-round KO. But in January, Poirier got his revenge at UFC 257 with a second-round finish. https://www.keneci.com/feedbox#h.axq5df7sce7u