{"id":100559,"date":"2014-06-10T05:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=100559"},"modified":"2022-02-06T10:04:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T18:04:15","slug":"cormiers-knees-have-been-injurerd-his-whole-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/cormiers-knees-have-been-injurerd-his-whole-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Cormier&#8217;s On Knee Injuries That Have Plagued His Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/daniel-cormier-needs-to-fight-ryan-bader-if-he-wants-a-title-shot\/daniel-cormier-png-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90982\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Daniel-Cormier-PNG.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Daniel Cormier PNG\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-90982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Daniel-Cormier-PNG.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Daniel-Cormier-PNG-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Daniel-Cormier-PNG-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Cormier joined <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2014\/06\/daniel-cormier-says-his-knees-have-been-a-jacked-up-since-he-started-mma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie radio<\/a> to talk about his chronic knee injuries that lave plagued the former Olympian&#8217;s MMA career since the start.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI don\u2019t know the medical terms, but stuff builds up around it over time.  That\u2019s how you know the length of an injury.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c(Prior to Jones vs. Gustafsson being rebooked), I would have asked for [a title shot] a little later because of my knee,\u201d he said. \u201cI would have wanted a month to rehab it a little more before I started a training camp, but now, that\u2019s not an issue. I can do all the rehab I need.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not a guy who likes to do surgery; that\u2019s not my thing. I\u2019ve had enough of them; I broke my thumb, I broke my arm, I broke my hand. Not a real big surgery guy, because once you do a surgery, you\u2019re committed to being off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019m going to do is really aggressive rehab and hope that it\u2019s strong enough to avoid going under the knife.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Cormier joined MMAJunkie radio to talk about his chronic knee injuries that lave plagued the former Olympian&#8217;s MMA career since the start. \u201cI don\u2019t know the medical terms, but stuff builds up around it over time. That\u2019s how you know the length of an injury.\u201d \u201c(Prior to Jones vs. Gustafsson being rebooked), I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":90982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[7376,9,400,417,485,11,15],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cormier&#039;s On Knee Injuries That Have Plagued His Career | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/cormiers-knees-have-been-injurerd-his-whole-career\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cormier&#039;s On Knee Injuries That Have Plagued His Career | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Daniel Cormier joined MMAJunkie radio to talk about his chronic knee injuries that lave plagued the former Olympian&#8217;s MMA career since the start. \u201cI don\u2019t know the medical terms, but stuff builds up around it over time. 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