Injured TUF coach Shane Carwin hopes to avoid surgery, eyes February return

By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

Though Shane Carwin's knee injury has taken him out of a fight with Roy Nelson at The Ultimate Fighter 16 Finale next month, his manager isn't expecting him to miss much more time than that.

In an interview with Fighters.com, Carwin's manager Jason Genet said that Carwin tore his PCL, LCL and popliteus in training, and added that Carwin was "training through the injury and pushed too hard too fast."

He's still hoping he won't need surgery for the injury, and is plan is to be back in the cage by February of 2013.

"The gut feeling is that he can recover without surgery if he rehabs it," said Genet. "The initial steps are that Shane will start to rehab the knee tomorrow, and see a specialist later in the week. That's all we really know, and we just have to see how it goes from there."

"Shane will be fine and is staying positive. We are going to do what we always do at Ingrained Media. We are going to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and make the most out of a bad situation."

Penick's Analysis: The UFC has had awful luck with these coaches fight for a few years now. Going back to season ten's Rashad Evans-Quinton "Rampage" Jackson bout - which was delayed six months because Jackson filmed the A-Team movie - the UFC has had five out of seven fights either delayed or canceled entirely. After Evans-Jackson, season 11's Chuck Liddell-Tito Ortiz matchup fell by the wayside when Ortiz was injured; season 12 went fine with Georges St-Pierre and Josh Koscheck, but season 13's Brock Lesnar-Junior dos Santos fight never happened after the reemergence of Lesnar's diverticulitis. Fast forward to this year, and now both Season 15 and season 16 have been affected, as Urijah Faber and Dominick Cruz didn't fight when Cruz got hurt, and Carwin and Nelson are either delayed or not fighting each other at all. Considering he's tried rehabbing to get back for December, I don't know how confident the UFC will be in trying to book him in February right now unless he shows some drastic improvement in condition soon.

[Shane Carwin art by Cory Gould (c) MMATorch.com]

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