The list of medical suspensions for this past Saturday’s UFC 129: St-Pierre vs. Shields event was made available on Monday, with all fighters receiving a minimum sentence of 14-days, while six fighters received 60-day suspensions, including welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre.
The Ontario Ministry of Consumer Services’ Office of the Athletics Commissioner made the list available to MMAjunkie.com, who posted the news Monday afternoon.
UFC 129 took place at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario on April 30 in the promotions first ever visit to that Province. The event featured two title-bouts, with St-Pierre successfully defending his title against Jake Shields, and Canadian featherweight Mark Hominick coming up short against 145 lb champ Jose Aldo in the co-main event.
The Athletics Commissioner saw fit to issue St-Pierre, Hominick, Randy Couture, Jason Brilz, Sean Pierson, Charlie Valencia, and Kyle Watson with 60-day suspensions for their various injuries.
The full list of UFC 129 medical suspensions are as follows:
– Georges St-Pierre: Suspended 60 days due to eye injury and must have ophthalmologist’s clearance before returning
– Jake Shields: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
– Jose Aldo: Suspended 30 days due to lacerations
– Mark Hominick: Suspended 60 days for precautionary reasons and must have a new CT scan completed
– Lyoto Machida: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
– Randy Couture: Suspended 60 days due to KO and must have a new CT scan completed
– Vladimir Matyushenko: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
– Jason Brilz: Suspended 60 days due to KO and must have a new CT scan completed
– Ben Henderson: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
– Mark Bocek: Suspended 30 days due to head laceration
– Rory MacDonald: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
– Nate Diaz: Suspended 45 days due to left-eye laceration
– Jake Ellenberger: Suspended 45 days and must have X-ray due to possible hand injury
– Sean Pierson: : Suspended 60 days due to KO and must have a new CT scan completed
– Claude Patrick: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
– Daniel Roberts: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
– Ivan Menjivar: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
– Charlie Valencia: Suspended 60 days due to KO and must have a new CT scan completed
– Jason MacDonald: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
– Ryan Jensen: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
– John Makdessi: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
– Kyle Watson: Suspended 60 days due to left-eye laceration and KO and must have a new CT scan completed
– Pablo Garza: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
– Yves Jabouin: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons