Tony
13-02-2009, 11:20
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(Sad Amir is sad. Fan art courtesy of myspace.com/ammmir (http://www.myspace.com/ammmir).)
In a new interview with MMA Junkie (http://mmajunkie.com/news/13979/amir-sadollah-recovering-from-surgery-planning-drop-to-170-pounds.mma), TUF 7 winner Amir Sadollah (http://wiki.cagepotato.com/index.php/Amir_Sadollah) stated that a move down to 170 pounds is "definitely...in my future," as soon as he recovers from his latest injury (http://www.cagepotato.com/amir-sadollah-forced-pull-out-ufc-fight-night-17). After winning the seventh season of The Ultimate Fighter last June by submitting CB Dollaway via armbar in the finale — which also happened to be Sadollah's professional MMA debut — he had to pull out of UFC 91 in November due to a leg injury. Sadollah became officially cursed when he had to drop out of last Saturday's UFC Fight Night 17 show (http://www.cagepotato.com/ufc-fight-night-17-liveblogging-forget) because of a shoulder injury. As he explains (http://mmajunkie.com/news/13979/amir-sadollah-recovering-from-surgery-planning-drop-to-170-pounds.mma):
"It was about two or three weeks before the fight, and I had just been training. It was just kind of a random, weird thing. I just got dropped right exactly on my shoulder in a weird spot. It dislocated my clavicle and gave me a couple other internal shoulder injuries. I actually just got out of surgery on it yesterday...They looked around with the scope and kind of checked out what injuries were there and what they needed to repair and what I could get away with just with rehab. It looks like I'll be able to just rehab it and get back in there."
Unfortunately, he doesn't know exactly when that will be:
"I still have my follow-up with my doc. I talked to him after surgery, but I was pretty groggy...I don't want to start making promises. Every time I make a fight it gets canceled. I'm not going to tell anyone until the day of the fight and just say, 'Alright, I'm fighting.'"
It's unclear whether Sadollah will take a fight at middleweight before making his planned drop to welterweight. For now, he's just focused on getting healthy. Poor guy...even Jesse "Mongo" Taylor seems to be doing better than this kid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZyhlgEd7Xo).
(Sad Amir is sad. Fan art courtesy of myspace.com/ammmir (http://www.myspace.com/ammmir).)
In a new interview with MMA Junkie (http://mmajunkie.com/news/13979/amir-sadollah-recovering-from-surgery-planning-drop-to-170-pounds.mma), TUF 7 winner Amir Sadollah (http://wiki.cagepotato.com/index.php/Amir_Sadollah) stated that a move down to 170 pounds is "definitely...in my future," as soon as he recovers from his latest injury (http://www.cagepotato.com/amir-sadollah-forced-pull-out-ufc-fight-night-17). After winning the seventh season of The Ultimate Fighter last June by submitting CB Dollaway via armbar in the finale — which also happened to be Sadollah's professional MMA debut — he had to pull out of UFC 91 in November due to a leg injury. Sadollah became officially cursed when he had to drop out of last Saturday's UFC Fight Night 17 show (http://www.cagepotato.com/ufc-fight-night-17-liveblogging-forget) because of a shoulder injury. As he explains (http://mmajunkie.com/news/13979/amir-sadollah-recovering-from-surgery-planning-drop-to-170-pounds.mma):
"It was about two or three weeks before the fight, and I had just been training. It was just kind of a random, weird thing. I just got dropped right exactly on my shoulder in a weird spot. It dislocated my clavicle and gave me a couple other internal shoulder injuries. I actually just got out of surgery on it yesterday...They looked around with the scope and kind of checked out what injuries were there and what they needed to repair and what I could get away with just with rehab. It looks like I'll be able to just rehab it and get back in there."
Unfortunately, he doesn't know exactly when that will be:
"I still have my follow-up with my doc. I talked to him after surgery, but I was pretty groggy...I don't want to start making promises. Every time I make a fight it gets canceled. I'm not going to tell anyone until the day of the fight and just say, 'Alright, I'm fighting.'"
It's unclear whether Sadollah will take a fight at middleweight before making his planned drop to welterweight. For now, he's just focused on getting healthy. Poor guy...even Jesse "Mongo" Taylor seems to be doing better than this kid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZyhlgEd7Xo).