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Report: UFC Light Heavyweight champion Mauricio Shogun having knee surgery
By Zach Arnold | June 10, 2010
Was Franklin McNeil right about Mauricio Shogun having a big knee injury going into the UFC 113 fight? Franklin was mercilessly ridiculed by MMA writers and online fans for what he said on the MMA Live show, especially from this guy.
Remember when Franklin McNeil on ESPN’s MMA Live show said before the UFC 113 fight that Mauricio Shogun had a knee injury? Shogun would go on to obliterate Lyoto Machida, only for news to come out shortly thereafter that Shogun had an appendectomy and was not exactly in the best condition to fight in.
Well, now there’s discussion that Shogun is having knee surgery and isn’t talking about whether or not the knee injury was suffered before the UFC 113 fight.
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Never been big on conspiracies and i’m not going to start now. Shogun didn’t look hampered at all in his fight with Machida so if he says he hurt himself sometime during the fight that’s good enough for me.
As we learned with Tito, saying the injury happened before the fight will cause the UFC’s insurance providers to refuse to pay for the surgery, so it’s very unlikely that anyone will ever admit that the injury happened before, even if it did.