Quote of the Day: Josh Thomson Not 100% for Strikeforce
by Kid Nate on Jun 25, 2008 10:27 AM EDT
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I was really hoping to avoid a fight with Gilbert my first fight back. Promotions make fights, and fighters have to step up to take them. After eight or nine months off, I've got some catching up to do. It would have been nice to get a warm-up fight in.
They might as well have cut me open. It's still not 100 percent. I don't know that I'll ever be 100 percent, but I've done as much as I could to get there.
Josh Thomson talking to Sherdog about his upcoming Strikeforce title fight with Gilbert Melendez.
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some clarification.....
Can anyone list his injuries and what procedures he has had done?
by strictlymma.com on Jun 25, 2008 11:38 AM EDT reply actions
here's what i could find
“I had a SLAP tear in my labrum in the back part of my shoulder,” Thomson said. “My doctor told me to go ahead and rehab it. Usually you can’t really rehab it, so I don’t know what he was thinking. He said that given the fact that I was an athlete that it might not be that bad of a tear and that I might be able to rehab it. So we started rehabbing it, and I started training, and it felt fine. But it slowly and gradually started tearing to the front.”He soon wrecked it for good.
“I was down training with Rob McCullough, and I shot in on a double-leg (takedown), and he sprawled out, and my arm stretched over my head and dislocated. I made the decision from then to … get surgery. I got it all fixed up.”
source.
I have had the exact same surgery....
...on both shoulders and the rehab on them is about 6-8 months. Not sure what his time frame is, but it sounds like it has been less than 6 months. I wish him good luck, he is going to need it.
by strictlymma.com on Jun 25, 2008 1:13 PM EDT up reply actions
Just ask.....
Shogun about rushing back to early.
by strictlymma.com on Jun 25, 2008 5:59 PM EDT up reply actions
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