Injured Shoulder Sidelines Velasquez Until Summer

http://www.sherdog.com/news/news/Injured-Shoulder-Sidelines-Velasquez-Until-Summer-29070

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UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez will be out six to eight months nursing an injured shoulder.

Sherdog.com learned of Velasquez's injury last week from sources close to the fighter, and the information was verified today by UFC president Dana White in an interview with MMA Fighting following the UFC 125 pre-fight news conference.

Velasquez was expected to defend his title in early 2011 against top contender Junior dos Santos, but that idea has been scrapped. According to White, the hopeful return date for the champ is sometime this summer.

In dos Santos, Velasquez faces a massive Brazilian with knockout power in both hands. “Cigano” is undefeated since joining the UFC in 2008 and earned the top contender spot by besting “Ultimate Fighter 10” winner Roy Nelson at UFC 117 in August. With the exception of Nelson, the Black House product has finished all of his opponents inside the Octagon, including Fabricio Werdum, Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic and Stefan Struve.

Velasquez snatched the heavyweight belt away from the monstrous Brock Lesnar at UFC 121 in October, blasting the 280-pound titleholder with crisp punches and bloodying his face. Within minutes, a wobbly Lesnar was in full retreat, and Velasquez sealed the deal with devastating ground-and-pound at 4:12 of the first frame.

Undefeated in nine professional outings, the American Kickboxing Academy standout holds notable victories over former International Fight League titleholder Ben Rothwell and french kickboxer Cheick Kongo. Velasquez also holds the distinction of being only the second man to ever finish former Pride Fighting Championships champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira.

this sucks! I can't wait to see this fight damn it, hope Cane comes back strong I want to see these 2 stand and bang till one does the stankey leg

Gonna be a long layoff for Jr at that point

Plenty of time to setup the next contender

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

damn, i was wondering why no date was set for Cain-JDS.

So you have Cain out, Carwin out, Nelson in limbo, JDS likely waiting on Cain, nothing imminent for Lesnar but likely fighting Mir again. Then you have the neverending SF HW saga. Things look to be stagnant above the middle of the pack in the HW class for sometime now.

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Cain get well soon sorry to hear about the injury. Now there's 2 guys for me to to #TUF against. Brock or JDS either one works for me. @UFC

Frank Mir VIA twitter

Over / Under Interim Belt gets made

no interim, it's not enough time off IMO

theyll wait it out this time

Brock vs Mir III will happen

Doubt there is an interim belt made. That usually happens when there are people with credible claims to the top rank around, aside from JDS, no one in UFC approaches that right now, Mir is the only HW in the top ten coming off a win and he doesn't deserve it in my opinion.

Please no interim belt.

Brock vs Mir II for interim belt, Brock holds the "Title" again LOL

LA wrote:

Brock vs Mir II for interim belt, Brock holds the "Title" again LOL

JDS knocks both of their heads off!

Brock could get the takedown on JDS where we haven't seen him yet, standing obviously JDS wins, he does knock Mir's head off though, who has no shot and wouldn't last standing.

Damn that really blows. Was expecting a fast turn around and now JDS will be out almost a year

JDS says he doesn't want to wait, he wants to fight someone else until Cain is ready

killerofchicken wrote:

JDS says he doesn't want to wait, he wants to fight someone else until Cain is ready

That's why JDS has always been my all time favorite fighter, since 98. Fuck Reshad!!!

Well then, Stefan Struve seems to be without an opponent and JDS wants to go. Let's make that Struve-McCorkle joke of a co-main event count for something.

Set up a rematch and watch the hilarity ensue.

killerofchicken wrote:

JDS says he doesn't want to wait, he wants to fight someone else until Cain is ready

considering he was already in a holding pattern as he waited for his title shot, it would have been waaaay too long for him not to fight again.

I like Mir or Schaub as possible matchups.

Mir vs JDS sounds abourt right

The layoff would be long, but JDS getting a fight would surprise me, you could potentially kill a contender.

What if they went interim and gave Brock a shot..

Why the hell would they give him a shot?

Did you not watch Brock vs Cain? wheres the logic behind this?

GDPofDRC wrote:

killerofchicken wrote:

JDS says he doesn't want to wait, he wants to fight someone else until Cain is ready

That's why JDS has always been my all time favorite fighter, since 98. Fuck Reshad!!!

In Rashads defense there are far more contenders that could knock him off at LHW so if he has a shot I may have waited also. JDS has nearly no risk of losing to any1 except maybe Brock. He would beat Mir to death.

Not a good defense, lol. You just said he was scared.

GDPofDRC wrote:

Not a good defense, lol. You just said he was scared.

HAHA, thats what I was thinking too!