It seems like a few fighters with obvious injuries weren’t fully included in the UFC 224 medical suspensions from Rio.
When you see a lot of long medical suspensions, that usually means that a UFC event had a lot of hurt fighters in the Octagon. Your average event in the United States will see a few 180-day suspensions and at least a few calls for x-rays. Brazil? Not so much.
CABMMA oversaw UFC 224 in Rio de Janeiro, and despite witnessing more than one fighter suffer debilitating injuries during the fight, it didn’t seem to trouble the people handling the medicals too much. In fact, only two fighters – both Brazilian and both in the top two fights on the card – received 180-day suspensions and notice for x-rays. Amanda Nunes has to get her foot checked out, and so does Ronaldo Souza.
So that begs the question – did anyone really look at Raquel Pennington’s leg? She felt like she broke it early in the fight with Nunes, and she called the Brazilian medical treatment for it “terrible”, electing to return to the US earlier than anticipated to get it looked at. And what about Jack Hermansson, who was in outrageous pain from an apparent rib break during his fight with Thales Leites. He got a paltry 14-day suspension and no mention of an injury at all.
Go CABMMA I guess. Here’s a full list of the suspensions, via MMA Fighting:
Amanda Nunes: Suspended 180 days, requires x-ray of right foot; if cleared then 30 days no contest, 21 days no contact
Ronaldo Souza: Suspended 180 days, requires x-ray of right foot; if cleared then 45 days no contest, 30 days no contact
Raquel Pennington: Suspended 60 days no contest, 45 days no contact pending clearance from maxillofacial surgeon
Brian Kelleher: Suspended 60 days no contest, 45 days no contact
Vitor Belfort: Suspended 60 days no contest, 45 days no contact
Sean Strickland: Suspended 60 days no contest, 45 days no contact
Sultan Aliev: Suspended 60 days no contest, 45 days no contact pending clearance from maxillofacial surgeon
Thales Leites: Suspended 45 days no contest, 30 days no contact
Alberto Mina: Suspended 45 days no contest, 30 days no contact
Kelvin Gastelum: Suspended 30 days no contest, 21 days no contact
Aleksei Oleinik: Suspended 30 days no contest, 21 days no contact
Mackenzie Dern: Suspended 14 days no contest, 7 days no contact
Amanda Cooper: Suspended 14 days no contest, 7 days no contact
John Lineker: Suspended 14 days no contest, 7 days no contact
Lyoto Machida: Suspended 14 days no contest, 7 days no contact
Cezar Ferreira: Suspended 14 days no contest, 7 days no contact
Karl Roberson: Suspended 14 days no contest, 7 days no contact
Junior Albini: Suspended 14 days no contest, 7 days no contact
Davi Ramos: Suspended 14 days no contest, 7 days no contact
Nick Hein: Suspended 14 days no contest, 7 days no contact
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos: Suspended 14 days no contest, 7 days no contact
Warley Alves: Suspended 14 days no contest, 7 days no contact
Jack Hermansson: Suspended 14 days no contest, 7 days no contact
Ramazan Emeev: Suspended 14 days no contest, 7 days no contact
Markus Perez: Suspended 14 days no contest, 7 days no contact
James Bochnovic : Suspended 14 days no contest, 7 days no contact