When you’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 sequence is a big 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 pinnacle trauma they take care of.
The truth is, there was one instance he witnessed dwell that basically hit near house 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 like it, however I do know these guys are [dealing with head trauma]… I really feel form of sorry for them,” Gibson informed Joe Rogan. “And one of many guys, I knew one of many guys pretty effectively, 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 struggle.
“He virtually received 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 received to me. I used to be like, I ought to in all probability really feel that means about all of those guys however I don’t know them as effectively.”
Volkanovski went on to win a unanimous resolution in a struggle that completed at No. 3 in MMA Preventing’s 2021 Combat of the 12 months voting.
