Tony Ferguson claims he is ‘cleared’ to fight

[Wild]

After previous disappointing cancellations, Tony Ferguson was finally about to fight Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 223 last April. However, it all fell through once again when “El Cucuy” suffered a knee injury during fight week that forced him out of the said contest.

The injury was said to be caused by a simple tripping incident, but it all turned out to be serious enough to require surgery. As of May, he said he was given the “green light” to begin therapy, but over the weekend, he claimed that he was already given clearance by his doctors to fight again.

“Cleared” Made That Recovery My Bitch 4 Months & A Day Thanks Everyone That Believed In Me, Keep That Shit Up Time For…
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Tony Ferguson claims he’s ‘cleared’ to fight: ‘Made that recovery my b—ch 4 months and a day’

 

[Wild]

Full recovery from major knee surgery in 4 months. No one works harder than this dude, seriously. He's a savage.

 

[The Big Guy]

Tony vs anyone top 10 ASAP

 

[SuperPig]

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[Robbie Hart]

It’s good to see he’s not putting himself in danger of hurting another limb!

 

[tang]

I’d love to see Tony vs Nate

 

[ShakaSway]

Thats cool.

 

[Rambo John J]

he is crazy...I actually believe him

guy was super aggro in rehab and probably comes back in crazy shape....he seems possessed IMO

 

[Rambo John J]

It’s good to see he’s not putting himself in danger of hurling another limb!

ya this guy is a wild dude...expect nothing less of him though

 

[sparkuri]

I consider Tony the champ, with Conor & Khabib 2 & 3.
Tony's mindset over the last few years is unbelievable.
I think he's on the peyote with Chavez in the spirit world.
Things may finally start happening with those top 3.
It's entirely possibly that ring of 3 could continue to deadlock the division for years.
Can't wait to see how Tony does.

 

[jimmy boogaloo]

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that is just making it more dangerous than it needs to be. idiot pipe-kicker. learn a lesson and why not.

 

[kneeblock]

Hard work doesn't exactly cut rehab time that drastically. Seems he's angling for a fight before the end of the year due to lost revenue. I'll believe he's 100% when he's in the cage.

 

[member 3289]

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I thought he was going to kick the metal thing off the table

 

[ECC170]

Hard work doesn't exactly cut rehab time that drastically. Seems he's angling for a fight before the end of the year due to lost revenue. I'll believe he's 100% when he's in the cage.

Bingo.. no way that knee is 100% it looked like Frankenstein.

 

[Filthy]

Hard work doesn't exactly cut rehab time that drastically. Seems he's angling for a fight before the end of the year due to lost revenue. I'll believe he's 100% when he's in the cage.

True.

But...

when I dislocated my knee (no surgery) I lucked out I got one of the top knee doctors in the country (chief surgeon at Rebound Clinic). Knees take time to heal because they don't get a lot of circulation, and inflammation reduces the circulation further. Inflammation hurts, and the only way to improve the circulation is to move the limbs and work the joint. And that really fucking hurts, and it hurts for a long time after. So even though you feel worse (like sick to your stomach can't stand up kind of worse), you're getting better. He also told me that they wouldn't have me doing anything unsupervised/at-home that could re-injure the joint.

So for certain exercises and at certain stages of rehab, the only thing that was holding me back was ability to take the pain. Normal recovery for my injury was 5-7 months, I was done in 3.5. But it wasn't going to be healed in 2 or 3, even if I enjoyed the pain.