Report: Forrest Griffin Out Of Action Until At Least September Due To Shoulder Surgery
by Kelvin Hunt on May 26, 2010 5:00 PM EDT
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PrintFormer UFC light heavyweight champion Forrest Griffin was scheduled to fight this upcoming weekend agaisnt Antonio Rogerio Nogueria. However, he had to pull out of the fight due to a shoulder injury that has required surgery. Griffin had surgery this month and will be out of action for at least the next twelve weeks according to the Las Vegas Sun:
"He saw a specialist in Los Angeles and had it worked on," Gifford said. "It was minor surgery, nothing crazy. He'll start physical therapy in six weeks and be on the shelf for 12 weeks.
"We're not sure on a return, but October would be a good guess. Maybe late September."
Griffin is coming off a split decision win against Tito Ortiz at UFC 106, and it's unclear of who he could possibly face in his return bout. I'm sure that will also depend on the win and loss results from the upcoming match ups in the UFC light heavyweight division. Jon Jones is scheduled to fight in the beginning of August, and if he gets past Matyushenko he could be a prime opponent to face Griffin if they UFC really wanted to build him.
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Just a thought
Say Rampage beats Rashad, and it really doesn’t matter who wins Rampage/Shogun would that bump Forrest up in the rankings just because he would have wins over the two best in the division?
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by doonerthesooner on May 26, 2010 5:11 PM EDT reply actions
Kel,
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by doonerthesooner on May 26, 2010 5:23 PM EDT reply actions
Good for Forrest
This has been a pretty long-standing shoulder thing.. hopefully it gets rehabbed right afterwards and doesn’t trouble him anymore.
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Hopefully they don’t throw him into too tough of a fight right out of the gate.That will be almost a year out of the cage,and comming off of surgery.Would hate to see him come off of that kind of layoff,and surgery to boot,and step in there with a Rogerio,Jones,ect.
Of course,Joe Silva isn’t too big on giving guy’s easy fights back.They probably throw him right back in there with Rogerio,assuming he beats Brilz on Saturday.
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Yeah, but that's the problem once you touch that gold
Not exactly like he’ll get a tune-up fight unless he lucks into it due to an injury or card change.
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yep
plus..when you are top ten….you shouldn’t be fighting cupcakes anyways…coming off a injury or not.
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by Kelvin Hunt on May 26, 2010 11:43 PM EDT up reply actions
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