As expected, Aleksandar
Rakic suffered a serious injury to his knee at
UFC on ESPN 36 this past Saturday.
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The fighter’s manager, Marcelo Briagdeiro, told
ESPN that an MRI revealed that the light heavyweight tore the
ACL in his right knee in a third-round TKO loss to Jan
Blachowicz at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Rakic collapsed to the
canvas after stepping back on his right leg, and the bout was
halted at the 1:11 mark of Round 3.
Rakic is currently returning to Austria and is expected to have the
surgery done as soon as possible. “Rocket” posted a message on his
Instagram account on Monday, part of which seemed to be directed
toward Blachowicz.
“God had other plans for me Saturday night. Sometimes we need to
lose small battles in order to win the war,” he wrote. Win or lose,
good or bad the experience will change you.
“One thing I promise you, I will be back better than ever. This is
not over yet. Unfinished business. Rematch! I waited for you to
heal. Now you wait for me to heal. Let’s run it back!”
Rakic is 6-2 in UFC competition following Saturday’s defeat. He
owns notable wins over the likes of Thiago
Santos, Anthony
Smith and Jimi
Manuwa.