Patrick Cote To Undergo Knee Surgery, Out 6-8 Months
UFC 90 middleweight challenger Patrick Cote, who was unable to continue against Anderson Silva after suffering a knee injury early in the third round on Saturday, will undergo surgery next week to repair a torn meniscus and will be out of action for an estimated 6-8 months, according to Sportsnet.ca.
The injury first occurred in the second round as Cote attempted a kick, but the 185-pound contender continued into round three. Early in the third as he advanced toward Silva the knee gave way and Cote fell to the mat in pain in the opening minute and the fight was immediately waived off by referee Herb Dean, awarding Silva the TKO victory.
According to the report Cote originally suffered the injury more than a year ago then re-aggravated it four weeks ago. The injury was serious enough that he considered pulling out of the fight, but instead treated it with a cortisone shot in hopes that it would not be a factor in the contest.
The surgery puts any hopes of an immediate rematch on ice, though fans have decidedly mixed feelings on whether one should take place at all. Many (myself included) applauded Cote’s ability to make it to third round with Silva, while others have criticized Silva as being disinterested in the fight and not fully engaging Cote during the two-plus rounds.
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They really need to have Silva fight again ASAP as he is not hurt. Hopefully the rumors are true and he fights at UFC 92 as a LHW.
was cote in the same fight that i was watching? he said silva was scared & he feels he ****ed him up!!! that dude should be removed from the ufc like kalib sterns
I agree with you Tyler. But on the other hand, when fighters train, they train so that the time of the fight, they have peaked in their training. For someone that trains as pro as Silva would, he will need “down time” to allow his body to reach normality before he can go at it hard again.
It may not always be the case tho so I’m like you, I would love to see him go at it at 92.
“Anderson Silva is flipping out. He wants to fight again,like, on Nov. 15. He’s upset about his performance and he wants to fight again immediately”
UFC President Dana White, off of (BE)
as far as Cote goes….. he is a good year out til “fight ready” imo and i guess Anderson is going to “retire” after his contract is up with the UFC soo im extremely doubtful that he will ever fight Silva again….
make him fight rampage, i really don’t know why i want to see silva get dropped on his head but i do.
Oldman don’t worry Rampage will get dropped by Silva soon, Wanderlei Silva ahhh see what I did there ya wasn’t very clever owell…
hahaha i had a little giggle. Over what a retard i am. I forgot he was fighting wanderlei and therefor unable to fight anderson. Well who else would drop anderson on his head because for some reason a have a hankering for it.
Smitty….did you just compare Cote to Starnes? Get off this website. Now. Leave. Do not pass go. Out. Shoo.
i agree with dbiz if you think starnes is even half the man of cote your an ahole and a moron. cote is a good fighter spider was scared of cotes power and thats why he stayed away. he started doing that crap so the judges and everyone else would think he was in control.he lost the second round but he probably out scored silva the first. cote took tito the distance on 4 days notice at 205. beat leban and got screwd with a split dec. and lost to travis lutter by sub. and lutter almost got spider in a sub.and that was back when lutter really cared about his fights. cote took his hardest punch then took a knee. still never been knocked out and you should be kicked off this site because you know nothing.
Okay Cote avoided getting knocked out…how much credit can you give a fighter merely for not going to sleep after a few solid strikes? Cote dealt no damage during the fight, nor was he likely to if he continued the way he was going.
Cote is a beast, he is excellent.
He lasted the longest with Silva ever in the UFC, props.
I want to see the re-match
GET BETTER COTE!
there will be no rematch. Cote did nothing during the match besides survive. He provided zero offense and didnt touch Silva nor would he have if it kept going…
even if cote would have went five rounds with silva he would have lost. if you look back on the fight silva had almost a hundrend percent hit rate. cote didn’t do nothing.
Torn miniscus is better than first thought of torn ACL. Thought both fighters fought a smart fight and would gladly welcome rematch.
I thought the fight was boring other than Silvas antics, which made me and my friend laugh. Neither really made to much of an effort. Cote hasnt really showed much in his last 2 fights. I dont want to see a rematch if it’s anything like we saw on saturday.
silvia put himself in a position were he could be tko by letting the rounds go