Medical Beat: Should Silva vs. Emelianenko have continued? Should Arlovski retire?

The opening stanza of the Strikeforce heavyweight tournament generated
two popular questions.

 Should Andre Arlovski retire, and should the
Fedor Emelianenko vs. Antonio Silva fight have been stopped?

The questions followed Saturday’s “Strikefo…

The opening stanza of the Strikeforce heavyweight tournament generated
two popular questions.

 Should Andre Arlovski retire, and should the
Fedor Emelianenko vs. Antonio Silva fight have been stopped?

The questions followed Saturday’s “Strikeforce: Fedor vs. Silva” event
at IZOD Center in East Rutherford, N.J. From a medical perspective,
those two heavyweight grand-prix fights provided some interesting dilemmas.