Monday, 2 May 2011

UFC 129 medical suspensions: St-Pierre, Hominick, Couture and Brilz out 60 days

Seven fighters – including main-card competitors Georges St-Pierre, Mark Hominick, Randy Couture and Jason Brilz – received 60-day medical suspensions following Saturday's UFC 129 event.

All fighters from the April 30 card received suspensions of at least 14 days.

UFC 129 took place at Toronto's Rogers Centre, and every bout aired or streamed as part of the night's pay-per-view, Spike TV and Facebook specials. The record-setting event broke UFC and North American MMA records.

St-Pierre's eye injury, Hominick's heavy facial swelling, and Couture's and Brilz's knockout losses resulted in their two-month suspensions. Preliminary-card fighters Sean Pierson, Charlie Valencia and Kyle Watson also received 60-day suspensions, which were the longest given at the event.

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

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