Seven UFC 129 Fighters Receive 60-Day Suspensions
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The Ontario Athletic Commission released a list today of fighters who were medically suspended due to injuries sustained during UFC 129 on Saturday night.
Seven fighters received 60-day suspensions, two received 45-day suspension, two received 30-day suspensions and the remaining 13 received the OAC’s traditional 14-day precautionary suspensions.
Here is the complete list released by the Ontario Ministry of Consumer Services this morning:
• Georges St. Pierre: Suspended 60 days for eye injury; must be cleared by an ophthalmologist before he can return.
• Mark Hominick: Suspended 60 days as a precaution; must undergo CT scan before he can return.
• Randy Couture: Suspended 60 days for knockout; must undergo CT scan before he can return.
• Jason Brilz: Suspended 60 days for knockout; must undergo CT scan before he can return.
• Sean Pierson: Suspended 60 days for knockout; must undergo CT scan before he can return.
• Charlie Valencia: Suspended 60 days for knockout; must undergo CT scan before he can return.
• Kyle Watson: Suspended 60 for left eye laceration and knockout; must undergo CT scan before he can return.
• Nate Diaz: Suspended 45 days for left eye laceration.
• Jake Ellenberger: Suspended 45 days for possible hand injury; must undergo an X-ray before he can return.
• Jose Aldo: Suspended 30 days for facial lacerations.
• Mark Bocek: Suspended 30 days for head laceration.
• Jake Shields: Suspended 14 days as a precaution.
• Lyoto Machida: Suspended 14 days as a precaution.
• Vladimir Matyushenko: Suspended 14 days as a precaution.
• Benson Henderson: Suspended 14 days as a precaution.
• Rory MacDonald: Suspended 14 days as a precaution.
• Claude Patrick: Suspended 14 days as a precaution.
• Daniel Roberts: Suspended 14 days as a precaution.
• Ivan Menjivar: Suspended 14 days as a precaution.
• Jason MacDonald: Suspended 14 days as a precaution.
• Ryan Jensen: Suspended 14 days as a precaution.
• John Makdessi: Suspended 14 days as a precaution.
• Pablo Garza: Suspended 14 days as a precaution.
• Yves Jabouin: Suspended 14 days as a precaution.
-Cage Potato
Re: Seven UFC 129 Fighters Receive 60-Day Suspensions
I had no idea that fighters got suspended for an injury. I figured they usually took some time off after a fight anyway. Thanks for the info, I learned something new today
Re: Seven UFC 129 Fighters Receive 60-Day Suspensions
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Originally Posted by
cdavidson9
I didn't see it.. does that mean that Shields got the belt?? (seeing that St.Pierre got the eye injury and Jake only had a 14 day??)
St.Pierre by unanimous decision.
the eye injury was from a punch that his glove scraped the eyeball.:rolleye2:
Re: Seven UFC 129 Fighters Receive 60-Day Suspensions
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Originally Posted by
ted1025
Are the suspensions just for fighting on a card or from everything including training and what not
I am pretty sure it is from both for health reasons. I don't see how they can stop a person from training like they can from the person fighting on a card but in some instances I don't think the person can train if they wanted to and probably in the fighters best interest to just take it easy until medically safe.