Mike Swick Recovering From Surgery, Likely To Return In December
Welterweight Mike “Quick” Swick (12-2) will not be recovered from a recent elbow surgery in time to compete at UFC 90, but remains hopeful he will return to the octagon in 2008.
UFC president Dana White announced on Monday that Swick had been added to the official lineup for the October 25th event but Swick has informed MMA Weekly that he will be unable to compete at the event due to a recent surgery on his right elbow but is hopeful he can return before the end of the year.
“I had a few bone fragments floating around in my elbow joint causing inflammation. There were also bone spurs that needed to be removed. It has been ongoing for a while,” said Swick to MMA Weekly. “It reduced my flexibility in the right arm and if it was extended too much it would swell up and be useless for a few days until the inflammation went down. So it was a priority to get it fixed as soon as this last fight was over, which is what we did. Dr. Sanders and Young operated on it in Las Vegas on July 10 and removed the bone fragments and bone spurs.”
“As of right now it is still not 100%,†Swick continued, “mostly because I am training on it so much, but should be completely healed within the next few weeks. I have been doing cardio and some grappling, but haven’t been able to spar for some time. I am trying to be ready by November, but it’s a safer bet to say I will be fighting in December.â€
Swick opened his UFC career in the 185-pound middleweight division, winning five-straight bouts over Alex Schoenauer, Gideon Ray, Steve Vigneault, Joe Riggs, and David Loiseau. At UFC 69 in early-2007 Swick suffered his first UFC loss to Yushin Okami and immediately dropped down to the 170-pound welterweight division. Swick defeated Josh Burkman in his debut at the new weight class then topped Marcus Davis at UFC 85 in June in his most-recent bout.
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Anthony Johnson?
maybe fitch….he did beat davis and davis was almost in the group worthy of a title shot
lets go swick! glad hes coming back hopes he wins hes fight if he gets one. i think he would kill anthony johnson.
I agree i think he would win decidedly, but it would be a good opportunity for Johnson. I think Swick still hasn’t shown that killer instinct that he used to have. I am looking forward to seeing him fight again/
I thought Swick’s KO power would be better when he dropped down but was disappointed to see his fighting style take a 180 as far as throwing punches goes. I bet his surgery is the solution and we can all look foward to Swick coming back and earning a title shot……which he will lose…..then he’ll drop again and again until he is a batam in the WEC.
batam- baNtam
sorry
no i dont think swick could ever get a title he IMO is not title quality
Swick has a great record, but if you take a look at it, the only good fighter he’s beat is Marcus Davis. He is ridiculously overrated and will probably lose to whoever he faces in december. unless you don’t know the name of his opponent …in which case, he may win.
i think he will win because hes just coming back of an injury so i dont think they would put someone tough to fight.
the rob,
marcus davis overrated are you dumb marcus davis is underrated if anything he is a great fighter and can take just about anyone standing up
and if your calling mike swick overrated then thats even dumber cause he beat marcus and josh burkman who both were great and josh burkmann probably would have won season two of t.u.f. if he didnt get hurt
AND GUNSLINGER HE HAS WON BY SUBMISSION SEVERAL times davis is good
No gunslinger was saying that marcus davis was good thats what he meant by sasying he was underated and i agree marcus winning what? like 6 wins straight i thought he might of been a top guy be swick stopped him and swick is also very good.
thanks for clearing that up for nev-o, UFCfan
is it just me or has swick looked just way to guant since dropping down to welter weight, even at middle weight compared to when he was on the show?