Brain Foster out of 129 after brain scan

http://mmaweekly.com/brian-foster-out-of-ufc-129-after-pre-fight-medical-reveals-brain-hemorrhage

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Brian Foster has been forced out of UFC 129 in Toronto after a pre-fight medical scan revealed a brain hemorrhage.

Foster was set to face Canadian Sean Pierson in a welterweight bout on the card.

Foster first confirmed his condition on his Twitter account on Tuesday. MMAWeekly.com later confirmed the news with his manager Marc Fiore.

According to Fiore, a pre-fight test revealed that Foster had a blood vessel in his brain that was leaking and led to a brain hemorrhage.

Foster will sit out for the next six weeks and then go back in for another test to see what the next step will be in his recovery and return.

While the severity of the hemorrhage is unknown at this time, Foster will remain on the sidelines while he awaits further results from his doctors.

A brain hemorrhage can vary in the degrees of severity and can require surgery all the way to just medication to reduce swelling in the brain.

There’s been no official word from the UFC about Foster’s removal from the card or a replacement to step in and face Sean Pierson.

Damn, hope he's ok. Dude is a solid, improving fighter

Damn, hope he is alright. I remember watching him lose to Story in Dallas at UFC 103.
http://www.ninjasplace.com/gallery/Personal-album-of-OUSOONERSOU/story-chokes-foster-ufc-103-pic_25.htm

damn hope he is ok thats sad to hear

http://mmajunkie.com/news/23822/after-brain-hemorrhage-scare-ufcs-brian-foster-cleared-to-fight.mma
UFC welterweight Brian Foster has been cleared to resume his MMA career.

A second MRI has determined that no permanent damage is present six
weeks after doctors discovered a brain hemorrhage that forced Foster to
withdraw from a fight with Sean Pierson at UFC 129 this past month.

With the doctor's clearance, Foster awaits his next fight booking.

"We're ecstatic," Marc Fiore, Foster's trainer and manager, today told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).

Fiore said Foster soon will be able to spar again – he had been
restricted from contact since the hemorrhage was discovered – and has
been working to keep his conditioning in check. The two soon will move
southward, where the trainer is setting up a new gym in suburban Dallas
that's aptly named Fiore MMA.

Fiore previously had trained fighters out of the Midwest-based H.I.T. Squad.

"It's time for me to move on," said Fiore, who recently split from St. Louis-area gym.

The brain-hemorrhage scare followed another devastating injury for the fighter.

Fiore previously told MMAjunkie.com
that Foster received a hard kick to the groin in early March that
caused one of his testicles to burst, and doctors were forced to remove
it. In early 2010, he also broke his leg during a pickup basketball
game.

"Fighting is Brian's life," Fiore said. "His last fight was in November,
so this was a six-month layoff. Brian's one of those guys that wants to
fight. If he's not hurt one week, he wants to fight the next."

Foster (15-5 MMA, 3-2 UFC) currently is on a two-fight win streak inside
the octagon. He most recently dispatched Matt Brown by submission this
past November at UFC 123. Considered one of the UFC's most aggressive
and hardest-hitting 170-pounders, he's won three of his past four UFC
fights, all via stoppage.

Thats great to see he is able to go back to fighting.