LAS VEGAS — In his first public comments since MMA Fighting broke the news of Cain Velasquez‘s shoulder injury, the UFC heavyweight champion explained that he can’t pinpoint the exact moment he tore his rotator cuff, only that it happened during his UFC 121 kingmaking win over Brock Lesnar.
He thinks it could have occurred in the early seconds of the match when he used an underhook to defend a Lesnar takedown try, but can’t say for sure. Regardless, Velasquez said that he felt fine during the fight and even in the immediate aftermath. But a few hours later, when his adrenaline levels returned to normal, he knew something was wrong.
“I didn’t feel it in the fight at all,” Velasquez said during a question-and-answer session prior to the UFC 125 weigh-ins. “After the fight, I felt good and later on that night, my body came down, I was moving around. I was laying down to get up, and it hurt really bad. That’s when I knew something was wrong.”