UFC Champ Junior dos Santos Headed for Surgery

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Junior dos Santos, fresh off capturing the UFC heavyweight title from Cain Velasquez, is headed to the sidelines.

Although he injured his knee just 11 days prior to the UFC on Fox main event, he stuck it out, capturing the belt in the process. But he won’t be seeing the inside of the Octagon again anytime soon, as he is instead headed for the operating table.

“He’s gonna make the surgery soon,” Brazilian journalist Marcelo Alonso said on Monday’s edition of The MMA Show with Mauro Ranallo. “He didn’t say exactly when, but he’s gonna make the surgery.”

That’s not really a surprise, considering dos Santos was on crutches a mere 11 days prior to the fight with Velasquez.

“When Cain was throwing some kicks, I was worried about that because Junior tore his meniscus before the fight, 11 days ago,” the new champ’s training partner, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, told MMAWeekly.com after the fight. “So he was on crutches for a while.”

Depending upon the extent of the injury and the duration of the recovery time, the surgery shouldn’t interfere all that much with the timeline for dos Santos’ first defense, anyway.

It would be ideal for him to defend the belt on his home turf when UFC 142 lands in Brazil in January, but that wouldn’t have happened even if dos Santos were healthy.

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all i can say is JDS you are one bad and tough mofo.

It makes you wonder... was there a spy... Cain pretty much only threw leg kicks....

Chrom wrote:

It makes you wonder... was there a spy... Cain pretty much only threw leg kicks....

you know , you have a valid point there. Cain was never the leg checking type of fighter till this fight. One might argue he was doing that to try and keep JDS hands at bay. But i figured he would have tried they same style he used against Kongo. None the less you make a very valid argument there.

Conspiracy theorists.... I remember a thread a couple of months ago talking about his knee. If I was Cain and I heard about this I'd go for his knee too. Doesn't take a great Ethan Hunt to figure out where to aim your shots. Maybe the spy should have told Cain... "DONT GET HIT IN THE FUCKING HEAD!"

Besides ... I cant see the big honker being lowered down on a wire cable to look into a JDS ortho session ... hell could you imagine being the poor bloke having to lower him down?

Chrom wrote:

It makes you wonder... was there a spy... Cain pretty much only threw leg kicks....

Haha...true. But can we really call what Cain was doing throwing leg kicks? he would throw a slow motion foot at JDS and JDS would smack him in the face...rinse repeat.

I thought Cain was having pretty good success early on with the leg kicks,
some of them appeared pretty heavy; then again....its hard to remember a
fight that last a minute and a bit. > > > >

My next question after Chrom's inquiry is when did Jon Jones start training at AKA.?

(lol)