Big Nog To Forgo Surgery After Broken Arm At UFC 140

[No More Sorrow]

Despite suffering a broken arm in his most recent fight, former UFC interim heavyweight and PRIDE champ Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira will not undergo corrective surgery.

The UFC today announced that Nogueira (33-7-1 MMA, 4-3 UFC) will instead wear an adjustable plastic brace and undergo twice-daily, 20-minute sessions of ultrasound therapy as his broken right humerus heals.

The fighter is expected to recover "in no more than" nine months, according to a doctor he saw Monday in Los Angeles, UFC officials said.

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[Slim]

Big Nog is all man. That is a man's man right there. But... I guess surgery would have kept him out longer and he wants to get a fight or two more in before he calls it a career.

 

[No More Sorrow]

Really think he'll retire within the next year or so.

 

[Slim]

It'll def be soon but I think he doesn't want his last fight to be of him getting his arm broken by Frank Mir.

 

[No More Sorrow]

This is true, i wouldn't even want that for him guys a legend.

 

[No More Sorrow]

Don't know if anybody else has seen this but The UFC released an x-ray of his arm the other day thought i'd post it on here.

Seems like the worst place possible to have a break.

 

[Troy]

I am amazed that this can heal without surgery. That looks horrific and if it was me I would have gone for the surgery right away.