Alvin Robinson Likely To Return at UFC 91 Against Mark Bocek
UFC lightweight Alvin Robinson (9-2) will likely return to the octagon in November at UFC 91 after healing his hip, knee, and foot from a series of injuries that have kept him out of the cage since a January loss to “The Ultimate Fighter 5″ winner Nate Diaz.
“I had a torn labrum in my right hip. My LCL was torn in my (right) knee. And I had a fractured left foot. The doctors kept telling me, just in case… they kept saying, ‘You have to be prepared that your career could be done.’ I had surgery in the beginning of March. I’m healed up now, back in training. Just getting back in shape,” Robinson recently told MMA Weekly. “Looks like I’ll be fighting on that card in November.â€
“That card in November” happens to be UFC 91 on November 15th in Las Vegas which features the highly-anticipated return of Randy Couture against Brock Lesnar and is predicted to be the largest event in the history of the sport.
Though he will assuredly appear on the untelevised preliminary card an impressive showing could earn Robinson some air time on the pay-per-view as well as respect from the sold out live crowd.
Robinson is expected to take on Mark Bocek in the November bout.
Prior to his January loss to Diaz, Robinson topped Jorge Gurgel via unanimous decision at UFC 77 in October after dropping his UFC debut to Kenny Florian at UFC 73 in July 2007.
Bocek is also 1-2 in the UFC, losing his UFC debut to Frank Edgar before bouncing back with a unanimous decision victory over Doug Evans at UFC 79 in December. In his last bout he was defeated by “The Ultimate Fighter 6″ winner Mac Danzig via third-round submission at UFC 83 in April.
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Good to see he is healed up and ready to roll. Hope he has a better showing this time out.
Speaking of Danzig, I hope e gets his ass kicked. I didn’t like him too much on the show and think he has a strange yet cool diet of tofu and lactaid. In any case I want to see Guida do good. He keeps the pace of the fight going as FAST as he wants too. It is like he never gets tired. He barely lost to Huerta and I bet in a rematch Guida could stop things early. Guida may be rough around the edges but with his cardio/endurance/stamina, he has something that seperates him from everyone else.
Kris,
You mentioned something about power outages and I am not sure where you are located but I hope all is well and you/your home are not being threatened by cruel mother nature. If you are okay that is wonderful.
@KOuch – Nah, nothing too serious. The remnants of Ike rolled through where I live in PA last night and knocked out power for a little bit but nothing too bad. We’re all okay, thanks for checking.
Just a question ….. dont any of us work for a living here?
What I mean is I see the same 4 guys in here everyday no matter what time .
@Dr Doom – This is my job!
In all seriousness a TON of people check out MMAFrenzy.com from their workplace as our traffic spikes during the day while most people are “hard at work” browsing the internet.
I work. Been a little slow lately but when I am home I always have the internet looking up something with MMAFRENZY minimized. I can never get too much MMA conversation. For now I am off to work and if all works out properly I will be back checking any new comments or press releases by 5:30 PST.
I work from home, so I spend my time I don’t have something to do on here, and Facebook. Discovered this site a week or two ago, when they did the media conference to announce Couture v Lesnar. Been getting more and more involved in the site since.
@Justin – Glad to have ya here. Hope you’re enjoying the site.
I between meetings, sales, travel, confrence calls ect I’m either on the computer @ the office or bored with some bs that people are saying and check this site via my phone… Like rightnow I’m not interested in hearing a guy tell me about his new puppy (really don’t care), anywho Kris you know I enjoy this site great job and I hope for your continued success
yeah this site rules good set of people who no alot about mma i learn from other peoples comments as well as haveing my own view on things,
good to see robinson back hes a pritty big dude at 155 i thought he wa guna got threw diaz! not a bad record tho only loseing to nate and kenny, also i dont like danzig i think guida is guna beat his ass down, i cant remember who said this but some1 said he was a good gatekeeper for the 155 divison but i think hes way better then that i can see him being champ some day.
Hey Kris,
Where in PA you located in? I myself am from the Pittsburgh area. And yes I do waste alot of “company time” on this site.
timcat
What do you mean you “waste” time on this site? How can you be wasting time when you’re on this site?
I meant wasting company time not mine. I love this site and look at it even at home. I truly can’t get enough of MMA.
ok sounds good guys ……..
I look after my son while my wife works as a nurse.I used to have my own business for a few years , worked my A$$ off then sold it for a very nice profit .I also do some self defense training on the side …I was taught a form of jitsu by my grandfather who did some training with the gracie family waay back in the early days -i believe it was carlson who showed him back in the late 30’s.he wa a boxer and had a few fights in brasil when he met him and trained for a brief time. It works real well to .
@timcat – I’m in Erie going to Gannon University.