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UFC 163′s Thales Leites explains 16-month MMA absence

BAD MMA News — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 02:45:00 +0000

Onetime UFC middleweight challenger Thales Leites was in the midst of a comeback after being released from the promotion in 2009. In three years, he’d amassed a 6-1 record and beaten a list of UFC vets that included Dean Lister , Jesse Taylor and Jeremy Horn . A loss to Matt Horwich in 2010 was avenged two years later. But it was that March 2012 fight in Brazil that forced him to take a step back from the sport and get his house in order. “Before I fought Horwich the second time, I was recovering from surgery on my left knee,” Leites told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “Then I tore the ACL on my right knee, my good knee.

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UFC Bantamweight Champion Dominick Cruz Making Progress, Gets Clearance to Start Boxing

BAD MMA News — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 04:39:23 +0000

UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz is on the mend and making progress. The last time he fought was against Demetrious Johnson in October 2011. Cruz was scheduled to fight a rubber match against Urijah Faber at UFC 148 in July of 2012. While the two were coaching season 15 of The Ultimate Fighter, Cruz tore his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) during training. He underwent surgery that utilized the ligament from a cadaver to repair his ACL. His body, unfortunately, rejected the foreign ligament, so he had to undergo a second surgery in late 2012.

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