octagon doctor's video: Brian Ortega faces Korean Zombie after ACL partial tear: Doctor Breakdown

Brian Ortega desperately wanted to stay in his fight against “The Korean Zombie” Chan Sung Jung at UFC Busan this weekend, but his body told him different. The former featherweight title contender recently revealed the details surrounding the injury, which forced him out of the upcoming main event in South Korea. Ortega suffered a partially torn ACL that prevented him fighting in December, which means he won’t compete at all in 2019 after last competing for the title in 2018. “It was during wrestling,” Ortega said when speaking to the “UFC Unfiltered” podcast. “It was a Friday, Thanksgiving Friday or somewhere around there and I went to spar, regular sparring, whatever did everything. I have two fresh guys every two and a half minutes, fourth round I had the second fresh guy and he went for a single leg [takedown] against the wall and I tried to get out of it. “He hiked it up, my knee stayed against the wall, my ankle went up and I just heard a big old tear. I heard a crazy noise in it and trying to figure out what it was and he thought it was the Velcro from my shin pad. I was like no dude, that was my knee.” Despite knowing something was clearly wrong with his knee. Ortega tried to push through the pain because he didn’t want to drop out of the fight with Jung.