2025 450 supercross champ, Cooper Webb has revealed he almost didn’t even line up at A1 and thought he was going to have to miss the start of the season due to a UCL tear in the December!
The gritty and single-minded Webb made the decision to give a go and deal with the pain and now, five months later, the resilient warrior is now a three-time supercross champion!
Webb told NBC : “We didn’t want to talk about nothing because there’s no excuses in this industry. You got to, you got to go out there, rain or shine and get it done. But yeah, I re-tore my UCL (ulnar collateral ligament in his thumb) early December. So yeah, we were 50-50 on, even if I was in the race. So there was conversations and I told the boys, hey, I’m going out there and just see what happens.“
Webb then explained the how tough the last 12 months have been with his thumb injury in the press conference: “I was in pain for nine months, with my thumb, you know, it just never healed, it never got better. I crashed and re-hurt it, and it makes you tough, right? It’s just the bottom line, and it’s easy to roll over, it’s easy to, you know, I’ve won two, I’ve made a lot of money, it’s… I do this because I absolutely love it, and this is what I chase. So to be able to do it in that way is awesome, and you know, when we have these boot camps, and we do all these things, you’re giving it you’re absolute all.
“From diet, to sleep, to, you know, not having had a sip of alcohol in a year, like just things like that, that you give up to chase your dreams is, it’s special, and you know, I think even for me, like I alluded to in December, it was rough. I was sitting there with an injury, and was running on the beach with my agent right there, and we were having a chat while we were running on the beach, and just going, do you race, or do you not race, and I said, F it, let’s race, like if it, if it don’t work, we will get surgery and call it, so, you know, just stuff like that, right, that, you don’t think about. I didn’t think about an hour ago, but when I’m sitting here in this chair, going like, man, there’s so many things that have to go right, and we did it, we’re a three-time champ.”
