Knee injury nearly sidelined Daniel Cormier for Dan Henderson fight

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Not that you would have guessed from his performance on Saturday night, but Daniel Cormier was nursing a serious knee injury heading into his fight with Dan Henderson. As Ariel Helwani reported on Wednesday's edition of UFC Tonight, Cormier revealed that he injured his lateral collateral ligament (LCL) while training for Henderson just ten days before he stepped in the cage at UFC 173.



In the days leading up to the big co-main event spot, Cormier feared he'd have to pull out of the fight. Instead, after getting some tests done, he battled through it.



And in the process, Cormier established himself as the next-in-line contender for the winner of Alexander Gustafsson and Jon Jones, which is tentatively scheduled for August. Cormier used his wrestling/ground-and-pound to dominate the 43-year old veteran Henderson for the better part of the fight, before choking him out midway through the third. At one point, Cormier slammed Henderson to the canvas and broke a tooth, which Helwani said had to be pulled on Monday. That was the extent of the damage Cormier took in the fight. Though he in in discomfort this week and will need an implant, those problems are merely cosmetic.



The real concern is the knee, which Cormier will have checked out in the next few weeks, and says he may need to have it scoped. Cormier told Helwani he may need surgery, perhaps even ACL surgery, since his knee has been bothering him for a long. Should he have to undergo ACL surgery Cormier could be sidelined the rest of 2014, but since he is waiting on the winner of Jones-Gustafsson for his title shot, he might be out for a significant amount of time, anyway.

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Statistics: Posted by z0rg — May 29. 2014, 03:48 — Replies 0 — Views 7

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