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You won’t hear this often in the fight game, but James McSweeney is pretty sure that breaking his hand in the opening moments of his first official UFC bout was one of the best things that could have happened to him.
Not that it felt that way at the time. When it actually happened, during one of the first punching exchanges between McSweeney and Darrill Schoonover at December’s “Ultimate Fighter” Finale, what he felt was sickening pain.
“I knew it was bad. I felt a crunch, and I felt the pain move all the way up my forearm,” McSweeney said. “It wasn’t until two or three punches later that I really knew it was broken.”