The Ultimate Fighter 9 Finale Medical Suspensions Include Clay Guida and Kevin Burns
Main card losers Clay Guida and Kevin Burns were among the eight fighters issued medical suspensions by the Nevada State Athletic Commission stemming from Saturday’s The Ultimate Fighter 9 Finale, which was held at The Pearl in Las Vegas.
Guida, who suffered a unanimous decision loss to Diego Sanchez in the evening’s main event, is suspended until August 15 for precautionary reasons. Burns must have his right hand cleared by a doctor or serve a suspension until December 18. He too faces a minimum suspension until August 15 after suffering a unanimous decision loss to Chris Lytle on the Spike-televised card.
The full list of injuries and suspensions for the event include:
- Clay Guida — Suspended until August 15 and no contact until July 21
- Kevin Burns — Right hand must be cleared by an orthopedic doctor or suspended until December 18. Minimum suspension until August 15 with no contact until July 21.
- Andre Winner — Suspended until July 21 with no contact until July 12 due to a left cheek laceration
- Brad Blackburn — Right shoulder must be cleared by an orthopedic doctor or suspended until December 18. Minimum suspension until August 15 with no contact until July 21.
- Edgar Garcia — Suspended until July 21 with no contact until July 12 due to a right eyebrow cut.
- Mike Ciesnolevicz — Suspended until July 21 with no contact until July 12
- Frank Lester — Suspended until July 21 with no contact until July 12
- Jason Dent — Right knee must be cleared by an orthopedic doctor or suspended until July 21. No contact until July 12
For more coverage of The Ultimate Fighter 9 Finale click here.
[Pictured: Clay Guida]
Tags: Andre Winner, Brad Blackburn, Clay Guida, Edgar Garcia, Frank Lester, Jason Dent, Kevin Burns, Mike Ciesnolevicz
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tuf9 finale ??? what was that again ???
That’s right, that’s the event where both weight catagories were won by uk fighters
I’ve never seen the climax to a tuf series discussed less in the couple of years i’ve been visiting this site !!
It’s been pretty well talked about on other posts my friend. The TUF fighters just had the show stolen from them by a card that had 3 fights of the night.
Well, considering those fights weren’t very good…
No, I’m not basing that on outcome, I’m basing it on the fights. They were the televised lowlights. why discuss something that isn’t worth remembering?
Now get back on topic: medical suspensions.
These are actually pretty short suspensions, overall. Since the need to find the blackfoot native americans that scalped Guida and reattach the thing, I’m surprised his is so short.
Actually, it looks almost like the NSAC is starting a “you lost and took a punch” suspension system. Kind of strange.
Guida’s to me wasn’t as bad as burns from what I saw but I do agree that I’m surprised they’re so short.
So is the NSAC being overly cautious, overly officious, or on the money when it comes to these med suspensions and their length?
Just curious as to what the collective thinks on this…
I genuinely don’t know. I was hoping for some input myself.
It does look like they have a bit of that kind of system. Also, the Dent suspensions seems really short, only one month for a knee is uncommon. Usually knee injuries require a much longer time off.
Plus, once they announced the heavyweights and Kimbo, it kinda took the wind out of the sails for this season…at least that’s the vibe I got.
I personally found this season to be rather dull. And not because there was no Junie Browning and no bodily fluids, I’m glad that stuff wasn’t there. I just didn’t feel like I really “got to know” any of the fighters enough to connect with them, and none of the fights were really great fights. Some were decent, but they just weren’t that great, and as I said I really didn’t connect with and really get behind pulling for any one fighter or anything like that, or even pulling against any one fighter (besides Rob Browning early on). Well, I did get semi-attached to pulling for Lester, but he just didn’t have anything in the tank for the last fight, so that was rather anti-climactic.
Yeah, I felt the same about not really getting to know the fighters. It came time to make the picks, and I couldn’t really say what i felt was the fighters strong area, or how each fight should play out. I just knew I thought Winner was really fast, and (I can’t even remember his name) Pearson was like a bulldog. Johnson was tough as nails, but Wilks was technically better. Dent was to me unimpressive, and who knew what to expect from Dollar, he was a beast in the first fight, and lackluster in his loss (sorry can’t remember their names either). I guess i just felt the season was rushed, just hurry up and get to the fight, and I guess i have to say not enough personality or character exposure(?). Or maybe none of them really had much to display except for the one’s who didn’t matter.
Definitely think that “rushed” is a good way to describe the feeling of this season. I think that had to do with Dana’s admitted dislike for the theme for the season, but maybe not.