UFC 129 – Georges St. Pierre, Mark Hominick, Randy Couture and Jason Brilz medically suspended for 60 days
A quartet of main card stars from this past weekends UFC 129 event from Toronto, Ontario, Canada have been medically suspended for 60 days after picking up a variety of injuries during the event, with most of the rest of the fighters involved picking up precautionary terms.
Welterweight champion, Georges St. Pierre must have his eye injury looked at by an ophthalmologist before he can resume action, with Mark Hominick, Randy Couture and Jason Brilz all in need of CT scans after taking big shots to the head.
The full list included:
- Georges St-Pierre: Suspended 60 days due to eye injury and must have ophthalmologist’s clearance before returning
- Jake Shields: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
- Jose Aldo: Suspended 30 days due to lacerations
- Mark Hominick: Suspended 60 days for precautionary reasons and must have a new CT scan completed
- Lyoto Machida: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
- Randy Couture: Suspended 60 days due to KO and must have a new CT scan completed
- Vladimir Matyushenko: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
- Jason Brilz: Suspended 60 days due to KO and must have a new CT scan completed
- Ben Henderson: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
- Mark Bocek: Suspended 30 days due to head laceration
- Rory MacDonald: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
- Nate Diaz: Suspended 45 days due to left-eye laceration
- Jake Ellenberger: Suspended 45 days and must have X-ray due to possible hand injury
- Sean Pierson: : Suspended 60 days due to KO and must have a new CT scan completed
- Claude Patrick: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
- Daniel Roberts: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
- Ivan Menjivar: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
- Charlie Valencia: Suspended 60 days due to KO and must have a new CT scan completed
- Jason MacDonald: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
- Ryan Jensen: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
- John Makdessi: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
- Kyle Watson: Suspended 60 days due to left-eye laceration and KO and must have a new CT scan completed
- Pablo Garza: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
- Yves Jabouin: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
By Michael Pepper. (Follow me on Twitter)
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