Julianna Pena tears entire Knee, Meniscus, and Hamstring out for 2yrs

[MushroomX]

http://www.mmafighting.com/2014/1/2...c-171-after-suffering-devastating-knee-injury

Julianna Pena will be forced to withdraw from her scheduled bout against Jessica Andrade at UFC 171 after suffering a gruesome injury to her right knee, sources close to the situation told MMAFighting.com on Wednesday.

Pena (5-2), the first female winner of The Ultimate Fighter, suffered the injury on Monday while grappling in training, ultimately damaging, among other aspects, her ACL, MCL, LCL and meniscus. She is expected to undergo surgery next Thursday in Los Angeles.

Despite the severity of the injury, doctors have assured Pena that her right knee will return to full strength following surgery and rehabilitation.

Pena, 24, steamrolled through TUF 18 in 2013, submitting Shayna Baszler and Sarah Moras in succession before stopping Jessica Rakoczy with punches in the first-round of the season's finale.

A replacement opponent for Andrade (10-3) has been found. Raquel Pennington will take Pena's place.

UFC 171 takes place March 15, 2014 at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, TX. An updated fight card can be seen below.

• Johny Hendricks vs. Robbie Lawler
• Carlos Condit vs. Tyron Woodley
• Diego Sanchez vs. Myles Jury
• Hector Lombard vs. Jake Shields
• Thiago Silva vs. Ovince St. Preux
• Kelvin Gastelum vs. Rick Story
• Jessica Andrade vs. Raquel Pennington
• Dennis Bermudez vs. Jimy Hettes
• Bubba McDaniel vs. Tor Troeng
• Will Campuzano vs. Justin Scoggins
• Alex Garcia vs. Sean Spencer
• Renee Forte vs. Frank Trevino
• Daniel Pineda vs. Robert Whiteford

I cannot imagine the pain of that shyt.

 

[Amare's Right Hook]

Wow

 

[jackswstd]

And it begins

 

[The G.O.D II]

Shes young so hopefully she bounces back. But fukk that is a brutal injury

 

[Roman Brady]

blessing in disguise, shes one of these smoother(ers) that only does one thing and that one thing isnt fan friendly.She should use this tim to learn how to throw a punch

 

[The G.O.D II]

blessing in disguise, shes one of these smoother(ers) that only does one thing and that one thing isnt fan friendly.She should use this tim to learn how to throw a punch

Blessing in disguise? I think you are confusing her with someone else because she finished all her fights on TUF and none of them were boring. She may not be technical with striking but she has hella power and would have done well in the division

 

[bsmooth]

On Thursday, White was asked about the nature of the injury, and how it occurred, during the scrum on UFC 169 media day.

"It’s the worst injury I’ve ever heard of, ever, in this sport, and you hear about those types of injuries in football," he said. "Apparently, when she came into the gym -- and again, she was hysterical when I talked to her, crying -- she was training in her gym and one of her training partners, a guy, was saying to her, ‘oh, you’re wearing your Ultimate Fighter shirt, we’re real scared.’ He says that and was talking smack to her and then basically attacked her.

"He jumped on her back, started cranking her neck, and the way she fell her knee blew out. The most disgusting thing I’ve ever heard in my life. A year-and-a-half to two years she’ll be out, and I told her to leave that disgusting gym and go somewhere else with new coaches, new training partners, whatever. And that’s all I know."

White said he wasn’t sure if it was a fighter who injured Pena, but it was a man, and from what he heard it sounded like assault.

"It sounds like assault to me, but how do you consider it assault in a gym? You know what I mean?"

When told that this version of the story differed from that of her coach, Rick Little’s version of what happened -- which was that Pena, in her over-eagerness, didn’t do the proper warm up and was training with some guys before he had arrived to oversee it -- White said that wasn’t what he was told.

"That’s so far from the story she told me right after she was completely hysterical and crying, completely opposite," he said. "Completely different story from what she told me. Somewhere in the middle lies the truth."

Pena is set to undergo surgery to repair her knee next week in Los Angeles.

 

[MushroomX]

What the fukk!?! I has the feels for her, sounds like a fukked up situation to derail her career for now.

 

[The G.O.D II]

How do you blow out your entire knee from not warming up? I mean sure you could strain a hamstring but to tear your ACL, MCL, PCL? Thats the front, lateral, and back ligaments of the knee. Definitely sounds like some Lloyd Irving gym type fukkery

 

[George's Dilemma]

2 years? Sounds more like a sentence than an injury.

 

[George's Dilemma]

2 years? Sounds more like a sentence than an injury.

 

[PacMan Jones]

bytch bit off more than she could chew tryin to make an example out of men and ended up

 

[bsmooth]

UFC lightweight Michael Chiesa, her teammate at Sik-Jitsu Fighting Systems in Spokane, Wash., sent MMAFighting.com a statement to say this situation is "tearing our team apart."

Below is the statement in its entirety:

Pena was never "attacked" by some guy. She was training with a 135er that she trains with on a regular basis. He wasn't talking shyt to her for wearing a TUF shirt, and if he was, it was light-hearted gym humor. They were rolling and he went for a move that he's hit on her a thousand times before and it just happened. Nobody is to blame, it was a training accident. Just like Dominick Cruz. Everyone knows how hard she is to train with cause she's so damn tough. She only has one female partner that can somewhat challenge her. Even on the show, she was training with guys on her team and, correct me if I'm wrong, they made a point to say how tough she is. She's Cyborg-esque, I guess you could say, minus the PEDs.

Were a very close knit team here in Spokane, she was training with someone that she's gone all the way to Canada to corner. She's held this guy's child, they are very close. This guy wasn't some attacker or whatever the hell she said. This whole thing is tearing our team apart.

Chiesa, who has trained with Pena since 2008, added that less than an hour prior to the accident, she was in the gym doing cardio and leg day, "going hard as usual, so I think that has a big role in how it happened." He declined to say who she was training with.

Here is the official list of injuries Pena suffered on Monday at the gym, courtesy of her coach Rick Little:

* Full-thickness tear tear of the anterior cruciate ligament at the femoral origin.

* High-grade partial versus full thickness lateral colateral ligament tear.

* Avulsion of the tibial insertion of the medial colateral ligament with proximal ligament retraction.

* Rupture of the biceps femoris tendon.

* Tear of the posterior horn medial meniscus.

* Moderate sized knee joint effusion.

Pena is expected to have surgery on her injured knee next week. No timetable has been set yet for her return.

Need to hear Pena's account of what happened first hand

 

[BuyandSave]

Sucks because she was one of like five not ugly female MMA fighters.

 

[p00rky]

Rousey is probably laughing her ass off right now