What happened to Chris Weidman? UFC vet details ‘painful’ injury that sank Anderson Silva fight on Paul-Joshua card

So what happened to Weidman?

“Tore my bicep tendon throwing a left hook,” Weidman said on Instagram. “There goes that tendon. I tried to push through. I tried to give it some rest. It was 95-percent torn and because there was a bit of tendon left, it was just too painful. I couldn’t get through it. I would have been better off if the thing was completely torn after the inflammation went down from that. It would have been a little bit weaker but I think I would have been able to fight and then get the surgery afterwards.”

“Unfortunately, every time I would give it rest and try to give it a shot to train again, I would feel good shadow boxing and stuff and then as soon as I would speed up my punches, it was really bad pain and then I couldn’t even hold my arm up for defense anymore,” Weidman continued. “It sucks. It’s crazy how it happened. It looked like nothing. I was sparring some professional boxer and in the first minute, I threw not even a hard left hook and my bicep just popped.”