With the announcement a month of Mauricio”Shogun” Rua’s powerful shoulder surgery, the Brazilian superstar has continued his legacy of being a mixed martial arts (MMA) medical marvel. It is beyond obvious that Shogun is injury prone. However, with the total amount of punishment he has received, many may consider it amazing that’s he’s not only still alive to talk about it but continues fighting professionally in the maximum level on the biggest stage to this day. Throughout Shogun’s storied 30+ struggle MMA career, he’s faced countless setbacks via the much-maligned MMA Injury Bug. IMG_1702
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Is the shoulder surgery the end result of the necessary maintainance when it is comes to fighting, or of a washed up fighter? It’s definitely more than just another slight setback to his already legendary career, since it is serious enough that will not see him contend till early 2016. At just 33 years of age, it looks like a regular procedure on the surface. However, to a lot of fans, this is just another reason to make a declaration that Shogun’s best days as a fighter are obviously behind him. Maybe even that he should retire. The most difficult issue concerning the Shogun scenario is that he’s not even that old, although struggle years are a very different story. IMG_1693 Many pundits accredit the overwhelming accumulation of damage to a combination of both his times sparring with the legendary Chute Boxe Academy and to the grueling losses he has accumulated inside the Octagon. There’s not any doubt that Shogun’s time as a professional mixed Martial Artist has taken it’s toll on him physically. It remains to be seen exactly what the cost are in association with winning those four UFC”Fight of the Night” performance bonuses. Is they to blame for why so many think Shogun is well beyond his prime? This article gives a brief lateral synopsis of the harms the former UFC light heavyweight champion has accrued through his days as an expert fighter to further illustrate the determining as to when a fighter is possibly past his prime, and also to prove that a fighter being close retirement isn’t entirely dependant on age demographics. Shogun’s knees alone have confronted more wear and tear compared to any fighter currently on the UFC roster with the exception of Dominick Cruz. The Brazilian first injured his anterior cruciate ligament training for his struggle with Forrest Griffin at UFC 76. Attempting to fight injury, he blew out the ligament completely through the ensuing fight. The injury required surgery to correct and hundreds of hours of rehabilitation. Upon rehabbing the lame leg for many weeks, he returned to instruction and unfortunately completely blew out his ACL. Another surgery and rehabilitation regimen kept him on the sidelines until his UFC 93 bout with Mark Coleman which was nearly a year and a half after the fight with Griffin. While training for a rematch against Lyoto Machida, he once again injured his knee against physicians orders, he proceeded to fight . Despite winning in convincing fashion, the cause foIMG_1695r party was curtailed by Rua’s need for immediate surgery. Because of this it might be just over 10 months afterwards before fans would see him create his Octagon return against Jon Jones. It was a fight which not only finished his title reign in devastating fashion but one where the fighter looked to be a shell of his former self for the first time. To put it simply, his knee imploded. And then it happened . And then it happened once again for good measure. The surgical repair count needed to fix his knees quickly required three big surgeries in less than three years. However it has to be noted that history had shown us MMA fans that Shogun can’t blame these harms alone for hindering his fantasies of becoming a UFC champion. Despite being plagued by the injury bug for a second time, Shogun went to be UFC winner, however brief the name reign was. Regrettably, it is doubtful this time about that Shogun will reclaim his glory times of times past. As fans, we all hope he gets past these latest injury woes to become a contender once again. However as handicappers we have to take this as yet another indication that he is no longer capable of competing with the division’s elite.
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