I watched this happen in the fight between Hall and Weidman this evening and I don’t understand how it was possible. Is one bone stronger than the other? Something to do with physics? Just bad luck?
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If it’s the vid I’m thinking of, the defending guy basically caught the blow dead on with his knee, facing straight into the blow where all the bones, muscles and ligaments are aligned to make it strongest. On the opposite side, the middle of your shin is pretty much the weakest point in your legs. The bones are thin, there’s not a ton of padding and there’s no way to provide flexibility or let something else bend to absorb the impact when you’re dead in the middle of a long bone like that.
Yes. All the above. Take a bunch of boiled eggs. Roll them at each together. One almost always fractures while the other won’t. You will rarely see both shells break.
Whether it was his bone, the force, the angle,etc, we’ll never know.
I wasn’t there, but many things could contribute.
1. Bone density/strength varies from person to person.
2. Bones have strong areas and weak areas. The kicked leg may have been struck in a strong area.
3. Soft tissues over the bone can “cushion” the impact, reducing the force the kicked bone receives.
4. The kicker may have had a preexisting mass in the bone that made it softer in that area.
5. The kicker may have had a stress fracture starting to develop, and this is just the straw that broke the camel’s back.
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