No surgey for Franklin; December bout possible
UFC light heavyweight Rich Franklin got good some good news from doctors on Monday. The former champ, who broke his…
UFC light heavyweight Rich Franklin got good some good news from doctors on Monday.
The former champ, who broke his arm in a UFC 115 main-event victory over Chuck Liddell, does not need surgery on the left limb, and a targeted December or January return date is still a possibility.
Franklin’s business manager, J.T. Stewart, today told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) that the fighter’s full-arm cast was removed and replaced with a smaller, lighter forearm cast.
“He needed to make sure it healed correctly,” Stewart said. “He was feeling good. A few days before (the doctor’s appointment), he was telling some people, ‘I don’t think I’m going to need surgery. It’s feeling pretty good.'”
It was a bit of good luck for a fighter who experienced some bad in 2009.
“If it hadn’t healed correctly, they would have had to probably re-break or reset it and put it back in a big cast,” Stewart said. “It would have been a setback.”