Dominick Cruz Discusses Knee Injury

[No More Sorrow]

"I was in training camp, I had just gotten done with TUF, (The Ultimate Fighter), and I usually get done about 11. I got to practice at 11:30 and I was sparring that day with kickboxing and takedowns and a guy got behind me in a scramble and he went for a trip, the trip, his hips went in on my knee and it just buckled my knee right then and there. I sat out the rest of the round, threw some ice on my knee, it was pretty painful.

I was just kind of hoping for the best to be honest. I was hoping and praying that it was nothing crazy because it was a very, very loud pop. I kind of went into denial mode for the rest of that day saying 'Oh, I'm fine, I'm fine.' So I took some ibuprofen and that night I went in to get my normal workout in and I go to move around and get my shadowboxing going to warm up and me knee just pops right out. And I just knew right then and there that I needed to go get an MRI and get this checked out because me knee wasn't stable and it kind of felt like I was walking on ice. I went in and got an MRI that day and got the bad results, the bad news."


"Just to shut down some rumors that Faber thinks is funny to start and makes jokes about an Olympic bronze medalists and her taking out me knees. To me it's not really funny, it's just another way to know, for the world to know why me and Faber don't get along. I wasn't training with her at all. I brought her in to help my team on TUF."

Really sucks that this happened, always hate to see a good fighter sustain an injury like a torn ACL. He hasn't fought since Oct '11 and now he'll likely be out until February of '13.

 

[Edgeomatic]

I think Dana needs to tell the fighters not to to train THIS hard. There needs to be some point where a guy thinks, "I'm going really hard, maybe I should calm it down." Y'know, more reps with less. Especially if your at the top of the game like these guys are, you really dont need to be pushing yourself this hard.