Jedrzejczyk to have surgery, Cormier to have stem cell injections
Strawweight champion Joanna Jedrjezczyk is having surgery and light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier is having stem cell injections.
Mixed martial arts training is so tough that it is unusual not to enter a fight hurt. And fighting itself causes hurt.
On Wednesday UFC women’s strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk reported that she will be undergoing surgery to repair a thumb that she broke badly while, well, breaking Jessica Penne badly in the main event of UFC Fight Night 69 on Saturday in Berlin.
Jedrzejczyk expects a full recovery in two months, and after fighting three times in seven months, was not going to fight until the end of the year anyway. That fight is expected to be against the winner of Claudia Gadelha and Jessica Aguilar at UFC 190 on August 1, 2015 at the HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier needed knee surgery but when the opportunity arose to fight Anthony Johnson for the title vacated by Jon Jones, he stepped up. That fight is over, and DC wants to fight Alexander Gustafsson at UFC 192 on 3 October in Houston, Texas, which is not far from his hometown of Lafayette, Louisiana. However, Cormier still wants to avoid surgery.
Marc Raimondi has the story.
Daniel Cormier won the UFC light heavyweight title essentially with one anterior cruciate ligament.
Cormier now needs biological injections — platelet rich plasma (PRP) and stem cell — because one of his ACLs is all but gone, his doctor told him.
The new champion doesn’t want surgery, so the injections will help with swelling and pain. Cormier is confident in the treatment, because his doctor has had good success with this approach in other pro athletes.
He’s confident he will be able to fully train in four to six weeks and fight in four months if there are no setbacks.