On the broadcast, @danawhite tells @MeganOlivi that Whittaker's injury was a freak incident, UFC doctor said he'd never seen it in a young person and said that had the hernia popped during the fight, it could have been fatal.

I’m not that guy but I am a doctor and that guy is right and you’re wrong. You’re so wrong in fact that we are talking about hernias and incarcerated bowels and you linked to a Wikipedia article about volvulus, which is something else entirely and has nothing to do with Robert Whittaker. As for the hernia and the incarcerated bowel itself, they’re definitely not ‘rare’ or ‘freak accidents’. In fact, the reason infuinal hernias are repaired is bc they don’t get better on their own. First, the bowel plays peekaboo, going in and out, then the patient will start having to manually push it back in, then he won’t even be able to do that. That’s what’s called an incarcerated bowel and it’s what Bobby had. It acts as an obstruction that doesn’t allow food to pass through, causing nausea vomiting and stomach pain, the exact symptoms he had that led to him going to the hospital. Now if the blood supply is cut off to that bowel segment it’s called a strangulation, which is a medical emergency bc the bowel segment will rot and die if the blood supply is not restored. He may have had that but I don’t know. Either way he was in no condition to fight, but in no way is it a freak accident or rare in any sense. If you had read an actual article about the situation instead of a tweet you’d see that Dana is even quoted as saying he suspects it’s something (the hernia) he’s been dealing with a while.

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