If you happen to’ve watched a UFC broadcast over the previous a number of years, likelihood is you’ve seen actor Mel Gibson in your tv screens at an occasion.
The star of such movies as Braveheart, Indicators, and the Deadly Weapon collection is a large fan of the game. Whereas discussing the outcomes of a mind scan he underwent on the Joe Rogan Expertise, which revealed by the testing agent that Gibson had “the worst case of PTSD I’ve ever seen,” the longtime actor and director started discussing how he feels dangerous for fighters competing in MMA and the UFC with the top trauma they cope with.
In actual fact, there was one instance he witnessed reside that basically hit near dwelling whereas attending UFC 266 in Las Vegas and watching the featherweight championship bout between Alexander Volkanovski and Brian Ortega.
“Like, I’m hooked on the UFC, proper? I adore it, however I do know these guys are [dealing with head trauma]… I really feel type of sorry for them,” Gibson instructed Joe Rogan. “And one of many guys, I knew one of many guys pretty nicely, and often I’m fairly immune [to it], however he was in there and he was combating towards Volkanovski — it was Brian Ortega, and he was getting his ass handed to him in a single battle.
“He virtually acquired him a few occasions. … However as a result of I knew Brian, it was like my son was in there. I virtually began crying, it acquired to me. I used to be like, I ought to most likely really feel that means about all of those guys however I don’t know them as nicely.”
Volkanovski went on to win a unanimous choice in a battle that completed at No. 3 in MMA Combating’s 2021 Combat of the 12 months voting.
