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.

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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