Report: Forrest Griffin Out All Of 2009 Due To Hand Injury
Forrest Griffin
Former UFC light heavyweight champion Forrest Griffin, who suffered a broken hand in his unsuccessful title defense against Rashad Evans at UFC 92 in late-December, will reportedly miss the rest of 2009 as a result of the injury, The Sun reports.
Griffin had been expected to return to the octagon by May, possibly for a fight against fellow former title-holders Chuck Liddell or Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, but will be unable to return to action until fall at the earliest, according to the report.
The UFC was widely expected to book a light heavyweight championship bout between Evans and “Rampage” over a rematch between Jackson and Griffin, but the injury forces the UFC into booking the title bout, potentially as the headliner for UFC 100 in July.
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that really, really sucks man i look foward to his come back! hope its soon! i really want to see him vs chuck!
must be bad for him to miss all of 2009? seems rather weired to me! guess forest will have to start back down near the bottom then when he comes back.
Yeah, it’s pretty bad. From the report: “[Griffin] has since had pins inserted into his hand to help the healing process.”
Yeah it’s have to be bad for Forrest to miss that long. I hope he gets better and back at it sooner than expected, I really enjoy warning him fight.
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Injuries like this dont necessarily put him back down near the bottom… It seems to me like they usually do this..
Fight a “no name” to get your feet under you.
Fight a #8ish fight if the first went well.
Fight a Contention fight.
Resume rankings where that puts you (possible title shot).
Its kind of like te fast track back to the top. If he loses any of those along the way though, yep, he is just back in the pack.
Poor Fedor…
I mean Forrest.
I knew you were going to pop off and say this and i wont attack u for it but you know that this isnt the same whatsoever, cheers my friend
I almost made a Fedor reference, but I didn’t want to disrespect Forrest like that…and I figured you would so…yeah. Definitely not the same, as Fedor’s crap though.
have i missed something on the fedor part??
Fedor has a long history of taking 6 months off with “mysterious” hand injuries. Same reason we had a good chuckle at the video of him teaching striking techniques.
of cause haha just me being abit slack, i thought fedor had pulled out of his next fight or summat like that, cheers
HE DUCKING RAMPAGE…LOL
BUT ON A SERIOUS NOTE THAT IS A BUMMER… IM GLAD HE LOST THEN AT LEAST WE SEE A TITLE DEFENSE AND RAMPAGE HAS TO GO DEMOLISHE THE SHOW BOATER…
Ok here’s my question.
Griffin = out
Rashad v Rampage
Shogun v Coleman
Chuck v who???? Lyoto?
Could this news be good for Chuck as it might set him up to fight a non-contender? God knows the man could use a decisive win. He’s probably due to fight again in the next couple of months too and I don’t think anyone is interested in a Chuck v Wanderlei II. Who will Chuck get?
Chuck isn’t and shouldn’t be fighting a contender. This dude just ko’d twice out of his last three fights. And he isn’t going to get lyoto because thiago silva’s going to beat him. I think it should be LIDELL S HOUSTON ALEXANDER OR JAMES IRVIN.
Can’t wait to see rampage get his belt back and give rashad his first loss. It’s going to be an awesome fight.
Yeah I agree totally with the Chuck comment. As much as I love seeing the guy win and think he’s a good representation of the sport… you can’t argue with Wins and Losses.
And as much as I want to agree that Rampage will own Rashad… I have to start to question how many times I can discount Rashad, be proven wrong, and still maintain a shred of confidence in my ability to predict fights.
That’s not true man. In Liddell’s last 3 fights, he got knoked out by Evans, decisioned Silva and lost a split decision to Jardine. You couldn’t be more wrong.
Best of luck to Forrest. Wish for a speedy recovery.
This makes me think the winner of Machida/Silva might face Liddell. Or, possibly, this sets up A Silva vs Liddell? No?
anyone kno how forrest broke his hand? i dont remember him shyin away from throwin punches or favorin one hand ova the other. was it prexistin did he hurt it while flailin on the ground?
He hurt it near the end of the second, then got pounded on before he could use it in the third I believe.
I think Liddell gets the loser of Franklin Vs. Henderson fight the winner has to go back to 185 and the loser is staying at 205, I think this is the only other fighters left out there for Chuck to fight that still has a interesting ring to it ” Liddell Vs Franklin ” ” Liddell Vs Henderson “, not sure where is heard it from but I think Wanderlei Vs Alexander maybe happening.
wanderlei vs alexander would be sick dude! Lidell vs Franklin or hendo makes no sense to me dude. Lidell is still a “big name” in the sport but for us “fans”(or atleast me) it doesn’t make sense for chuck to get a top guy. “big name” or not, the dude needs to work his way back up. But knowing how the ufc works, he’ll probably get a title shot next
I agree that Liddell has to work on keeping his hands up and adjusting his style, but we all know how the UFC works:
BJ Penn – Title shot without winning (this is pure BS if you ask me)
Lesnar – Title shot with 1 victory
Liddell needs to fight one more top guy to see where he really stands, in my opinion. I still put him in my top 10, as I believe he’d be in most peoples’, but he needs to work on some tho be if he wants to keep hanging with the younger blood.
I think the issue is who do you have Chuck fight? If it’s not a top name… do you give him an up and comer? Despite his latest fights Chuck was a VERY dominant champ not too long ago. I think the Hendo v Franklin loser makes sense.
Wanderlei v Alexander sounds odd. I’m partly surprise Alexander hasn’t been cut. Oh well… if there’s a fight that’s guaranteed to end in a KO, it’d be that one.
I could speculate on fights all day.
Most people don’t even use their heads when thinking about the LHW division. Chuck is TO-DATE the most dominant LHW of all time. He has the most title defenses. And nowadays, the LHW division is changing champs every 2 months. Sooner or later, we have to consider Anderson Silva too. I don’t like the look of that for Chuck, but he needs a W. All the BS will stop if he KO’s Silva.