After knocking out Cain Velasquez to capture the UFC heavyweight title, it was revealed that Junior dos Santos had suffered a torn meniscus, which he had endured just a few weeks prior to his encounter with Velasquez.
In a post-fight interview with dos Santos’ good friend and teammate, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and team doctor Fabio Costa, it was learned that “Cigano” would require surgery to repair the injury.
“He has a lesion on the meniscus,” Costa told Ariel Helwani of MMAFighting.com following dos Santos’ win. “A big lesion that should have surgery to fix.”
The Brazilian revealed during the post-fight conference that he suffered the injury 10 days prior to his title bout and was forced to rely on crutches. Costa said that dos Santos would be out for a month while rehabilitating his injury.
Meanwhile, the Brazilian will be awaiting his next challenger in either Brock Lesnar or Alistair Overeem, who will headline UFC 141 later this year.
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