Mon 27 Aug 2007
Randy Couture Gives Left Arm for UFC Title
Posted by admin under Fights
These are the breaks.
Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight champion, Randy Couture, successfully defended his belt Saturday at UFC 74. However, as his assistant revealed today, Couture suffered a broken bone in his left arm during the fight.
Couture, 44, who defeated contender Gabriel Gonzaga by TKO in the third round, broke an ulna bone in his left forearm during the third round, said his assistant Valerie Haney.
“It happened on [Gonzaga's] high leg kick at Randy’s head,” Haney said. “Randy blocked the kick with his left arm.”
Couture, a five-time UFC champion in two weight classes, will have a splint on the arm for six weeks, a period that will extend into his plans to appear in a film being shot in South Africa.
The broken bone was discovered Sunday, Haney said. Couture was visiting a chiropractor in Las Vegas when he reported the arm was “sore, tender, swollen,” Haney said. An X-ray confirmed the break.
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August 29th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Randy Couture is one of the classiest Men in all of sports & at 44 yrs of age, still the best of them all. Athletes in other sports could learn the correct way of conducting their lives by simply following the example set by this great champion.