Top 5 UFC flyweight Ian McCall: ‘If I break again, I quit’

Top five flyweight ‘Uncle Creepy’ Ian McCall is scheduled to return to action against Justin Scoggins at UFC 201 on July 30, 2016. McCall has not competed inside of the UFC octagon since his UFC 183 tussle with John Lineker back in January of 2015. Bloody Elbow caught up with ‘Uncle Creepy’ to detail his injuries and inquire why fans struggle to get behind UFC flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson.

Interview: #5 UFC Flyweight “Uncle Creepy” Ian McCall UFC 201 **AUDIO ONLY**

When asked about nagging injuries, Ian McCall responded with a whole grocery list of issues:

“I broke my hand in Brazil with Santos. On that same hand, I broke it so badly that I’ve had three surgeries. My hand is deformed. It doesn’t close. It doesn’t open. So yea, that was an ongoing thing. I also tore my hip and groin real bad. So a torn hip and groin, I had three surgeries on my hand, and then I had two fights in between there, and then I tore everything in my shoulder. The last surgery that I had was my shoulder. Four torn bicep tendons, two labral tears, and fully torn rotator cuff, and a partially torn bicep muscle.”

‘Uncle Creepy’ claimed to have called it quits about four months ago:

“I was going to retire. I had given up probably four months ago. I was over it. I was like okay I’m done. This isn’t working. Even though I’m training my arm’s not working. It still gives me a lot of problems but I was already used to fighting one handed because my hand wasn’t working. So …

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