Covington And Usman Will Sideline For 180 Days Unless Cleared By Physician
UFC 245 PPV event went down this past weekend from Las Vegas. It was one hell of a fight card.
All the fighters from preliminary card to the main event receive their medical suspensions.
The main headliner contenders Kamaru Usman and Colby Covington received a lengthy suspensions. Usman retained his welterweight title after having a five-round war with ‘Chaos.’
“The Nigerian Nightmare” got 180 days of suspension or have x-rays of his left thumb cleared by a doctor.
Colby also received 180 days of suspension or unless broken jaw bone (nondisplaced midline mandibular fracture) cleared by a physician.
Check out below all the suspensions below: (h/t MMAJunkie)
- Puna Soriano: No suspension
- Oskar Piechota: Suspended 60 days with no contact for 45 days
- Jessica Eye: Suspended 60 days or until eye injury is cleared by a physician; no contact for 21 days due to cut on the left cheek
- Viviane Araujo: Suspended 180 days or until x-ray/MRI of right hand and x-ray of the right foot and left tibia/fibia are cleared by a physician; also suspended 30 days with no contact for 21 days
- Brandon Moreno: Suspended 30 days with no contact for 21 days
- Kai Kara-France: Suspended 30 days with no contact for 21 days
- Chase Hooper: No suspension
- Daniel Teymur: Suspended 45 days with no contact for 30 days
- Matt Brown: Suspended 30 days with no contact for 21 days due to cut on left eyebrow
- Ben Saunders: Suspended 60 days with no contact for 45 days
- Omari Akhmedov: Suspended 30 days with no contact for 21 days
- Ian Henisch: Suspended 30 days with no contact for 21 days
- Irene Aldana: No Suspension
- Ketlen Viera: Suspended 60 days with no contact for 45 days
- Geoff Neal: Suspended for 180 days or until x-ray of left ribs is cleared by a physician; also suspended 30 days with no contact for 21 days
- Mike Perry: Suspended 180 days or until nasal x-ray is cleared by physician; also suspended 60 days with no contact for 45 days
- Petr Yan: Suspended 180 days or until x-ray of right foot is cleared by an orthopedic physician; also suspended 30 days with no contact for 21 days
- Urijah Faber: Suspended 60 days with no contact for 45 days
- Marlon Moraes: Suspended 45 days with no contact for 21 days due to cut on left eyelid
- Jose Aldo: Suspended 30 days with no contact for 21 days [autotag]Amanda Nunes: Suspended 30 days with no contact for 21 days
- Germaine de Randamie: Suspended 30 days with no contact for 21 days
- Alexander Volkanovski: Suspended 180 days or until x-ray of right hand is cleared by orthopedic physician; also suspended 45 days with no contact for 30 days
- Max Holloway: Suspended 30 days with no contact for 21 days due to leg pain
- Kamaru Usman: Suspended 180 days or until x-ray of left thumb is cleared by physician; also suspended 30 days with no contact for 21 days
- Colby Covington: Suspended 180 days or until nondisplaced midline mandibular fracture is cleared by oral and maxillofacial surgeon; also suspended 60 days with no contact for 45 days
