UFC 102 Medical Suspensions: Herman Sidelined Indefinitely With Knee Injury
Twelve of the twenty-two UFC 102 fighters in action at Saturday’s event in Portland have been issued medical suspensions by the Oregon State Athletic Commission stemming from their bouts.
The longest suspension was dolled out to Portland-native Ed Herman, who is sidelined indefinitely from a fight-ending knee injury suffered early in the second round of his middleweight preliminary matchup with Aaron Simpson.
Headliners Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and Randy Couture were both issued 30 day precautionary suspensions following their three-round war in the UFC 102 main event that saw Nogueira capture a unanimous decision win.
Only two other fighters were issued medical suspensions lasting more than 30 days, as a laceration will put Chris Tuchscherer out of action for 45 days, while Tim Hague must sit out 60 days following his 7-second knockout loss to Todd Duffee.
In addition to the suspensions listed below, all UFC 102 competitors were issued 7-day mandatory minimum suspensions.
The complete list of UFC 102 medical suspensions includes:
- Randy Couture – Suspended for 30 days
- Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira – Suspended for 30 days
- Keith Jardine – Suspended for 30 days
- Chris Leben – Suspended for 30 days and must undergo CT scan for possible facial fractures
- Demian Maia – Suspended for 21 days
- Krzysztof Soszynski – Suspended for 30 days due to laceration
- Ed Herman – Suspended indefinitely for injury to left knee and must be cleared by doctor to return
- Chris Tuchscherer – Suspended for 45 days due laceration
- Justin McCully – Suspended for 30 days for possible left eye injury
- Tim Hague – Suspended for 60 days
- Mark Munoz – Suspended for 30 days for right elbow sprain
- Marcus Aurelio – Suspended for 14 days
Note: Where no injury is specified, medical suspensions are for precautionary reasons.
Pictured: Ed Herman
Tags: Aaron Simpson, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Brandon Vera, Chris Leben, Chris Tuchscherer, Demian Maia, Ed Herman, Evan Dunham, Gabriel Gonzaga, Jake Rosholt, Justin McCully, Keith Jardine, Krzysztof Soszynski, mark munoz, Matt Veach, mike russow, Nate Marquardt, Nick Catone, Randy Couture, Thiago Silva, Tim Hague, Todd Duffee
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Didn’t Herman take this on short notice? That has to suck doubly.
Yes, he did.
Lets just hope that “fight-ending knee injury” doesn’t become a career ending knee injury…
Doesn’t indefinitely mean that’s he’s out for good? That his fighting career is over? Either way, that sucks dude. Atleast he’s got a pretty wife and his own school back home.
Yeah, but I was just trying to keep a positive spin on things is all, jazz.
Plus, if the rumors are true and it is a dislocated kneecap, it isn’t inconceivable that the Ginger Ninja could make his way back to the Octagon…
he is Indefinitely suspended from the UFC (til clearance from a doctor or whatever then he will be reinstated) yay me
“suspended indefinitely” specifically means that he has been suspended for a time period which is “without fixed or specified limit” or “not clearly defined or determined; not precise or exact.”
Often “indefinite” can be a long time, but really it just means that they don’t have enough information to set a time frame, and that it will be up to doctor to determine when/if he will be back.
Undertood
Yeah dude herman’s a tough guy and one who could overcome something like this. Wasn’t trying to be negative i was just unclear of what the article was saying.
Injuries like that are scary dude. Like I said before, he’s got a school back home but some other fighters (Corey HIll), have nothing to fall back on. Mike Brown (FW champ) said it best, these fighters put their health and in some ways their lives on the line everytime they step in the cage.
Trust me.
People in the RoseGarden knew Herman was hurt, at least in my section, which went from drunken rowdiness to Sunday Mass in the space of seconds…
Herman really showed how tough he is. I’ve seen a lot of guys in his situation who would have looked for a way out of the fight, but he continued(even though it was a bad idea). but he was in his hometown also so that problably gave him the extra boost to want to continue the fight. I hope he comes back soon.
I still didn’t like how Lavigne waited till Leben went completely out to stop the fight because Leben clearly tapped, anyone who saw that knows that i was a tap, even if Leben waited till the last second to tap, he tapped and Lavigne didn’t stop the fight, but to be fair i’m not a ref and he has come under fire recently so i can understand why he hesitated a bit, but still when i guy taps he’s telling the ref to do what he gets paid to do and thats stop the fight.
Watch the second angle(that shows Yves), it’s hard to tell if he’s throwing little rabbit shots or tapping. I think it was a tap too but I could see why Yves hesitated(which if you see that angle he clearly starts and stops before moving in).
Honestly, some of the partisan crowd was a little piSSed with Lavigne, but truth to tell I couldn’t decide if Leben, a known puncher, was still swinging, albeit feebly, or tapping.
And that triangle was snug, but not so snug that a man still couldn’t fire a few shots in a vain hope to extricate himself.
Although the ref obviously had a far better viewpoint than we in the crowd did…
Is it listed what type of laceration Tuchscherer suffered? I hope it was facial.
Poor Tuchscherer. That guy just had some bad luck that night. I give him HUGE props for fighting and not taking the DQ though. I’ve never seen someone blasted below the belt so hard they puked before. That was insane.