Dominick Cruz Re-Injures Himself While Recovering From Injury, Now Out Most of 2013

It just doesn’t end, you guys. It. Doesn’t. Fucking. End.

The insatiable injury curse of 2012 — seemingly fed up with claiming non-injured, active fighters — has somehow grown powerful enough to affect those who were already injured to begin with. NO, IT DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE.

And while the title may be a little misleading being that bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz didn’t truly re-injure himself, but rather failed to recuperate properly from the ACL injury that has kept him out of action since May, it looks like we won’t be seeing “The Dominator” dominating anything but a Domino’s delivery menu until late 2013 [WORDPLAY]. The newsbroke earlier today that the anterior cruciate ligament Cruz had replaced with that of a cadaver’s following his run on TUF 15 was rejected by his body, forcing the champ to undergo additional surgery in order repair/replace it.

“He’s pissed and disappointed,” remarked Cruz’s trainer Eric Del
Fierro, echoing the sentiment of not only MMA fans around the world but
that of MMA hack journalists such as myself.

I mean, I’m running out of ways to continue delivering bad news to
you guys in this format. Creativity be damned; I feel like a World War 2
messenger at this point, just handing out notifications of death to the
families of the deceased, trying to remain as
emotionally unavailable as possible while little Jimmy Pocket and his
Mom stare at me with tear filled eyes. No Jimmy, your father isn’t
coming home this Christmas. And that really awesome toy you wanted?
You won’t be getting that either, because Santa never existed and now
your Mom will have to pull double shifts at the diner and sell her body
for money nightly just so you can eat canned hot dogs continued...

damn,damn,damn!!! i am starting to see why dana is asking all of his fighters to start doing easier/lighter training sessions.

Probably sound like a broken record here but this would be good time to anoint Cruz the first UFC Champion Emeritus. Very similar situation to when WBC made Vitali Klitschko their Champion Emeritus. But WBC was going to strip him, if I remember correctly, for getting injured multiple times while training for his title defense fight. So instead he opted to retire and they donned him the Emeritus Champ.