Cooper Webb undergoes thumb surgery, will miss opening rounds of Pro Motocross [Video]

Cooper Webb underwent surgery for ligament damage to his thumb two days after the 2024 Monster Energy Supercross race in Salt Lake City and expects to take six to eight weeks to recover.

In the pre-race news conference ahead of the finale, Webb announced he had been dealing with the thumb injury since Round 9 in Birmingham in an incident involving Jett Lawrence. His accident with Jason Anderson in Philadelphia in Round 15 made it worse.

“I felt like I did a really good job,” Webb said about the rounds he raced with the injury. “I didn’t feel like it hindered me whatsoever, but like the last race at Philly, I think when I got together with Jason, that finally finished it off.”

From Rounds 11 through 13, Webb erased a 21-point gap to Lawrence and shared the red plate entering Round 14 in Nashville. Lawrence won that round. Webb failed to podium for the first time in …