{"id":267954,"date":"2018-01-16T08:10:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T16:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=267954"},"modified":"2018-01-16T08:10:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T16:10:12","slug":"coach-explains-choice-to-let-paige-vanzant-fight-with-broken-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/paige-vanzant\/coach-explains-choice-to-let-paige-vanzant-fight-with-broken-arm\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach explains choice to let Paige VanZant fight with broken arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, in the co-main event of the UFC&#8217;s debut in St. Louis, MO, Paige VanZant <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/jessica-rose-clark\/ufc-st-louis-results-paige-vanzant-jessica-rose-clark\/\">came up short in her flyweight debut,<\/a> giving up a decision to <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/jessica-rose-clark\/photo-jessica-rose-clark-shows-hateful-messages-received-win-paige-vanzant\/\">Jessica-Rose Clark<\/a>.\u00a0While VanZant lost, however, she showed remarkable toughness, surviving three rounds despite sustaining <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/paige-vanzant\/photo-x-ray-confirms-paige-vanzant-broke-arm-fight\/\">broken arm mid-fight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2018\/1\/16\/16895976\/coach-explains-why-he-let-paige-vanzant-fight-with-a-broken-arm-ufc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAFighting.com<\/a>,\u00a0VanZant&#8217;s coach Fabiano Scherner explained why he let her continue fighting through this injury, even when she told him about it between rounds.<\/p>\n<p id=\"TYJnoo\">\u201cI was asking her to stay away from the clinch and keep the distance to use her boxing and kickboxing, and she said, \u2018My arm is broken,\u2019\u201d Scherner recounted. \u201cShe wasn\u2019t feeling any pain, so I thought it could be a fissure, that sometimes hurts as much as a fracture. She said she fractured it in the first round, but she didn\u2019t remember that the spinning back fist [that broke it] was in the second round.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"D9U23e\">\u201cEverything that happened in the second round led me to believe that it wasn\u2019t a serious injury because the way she continued fighting, you couldn\u2019t notice it. I went back to the corner and asked the other coaches if they thought it was really broken, and they couldn\u2019t give me a concrete answer. I kept telling her to hit with the right hand, and when I saw that she wasn\u2019t throwing punches, I knew it was more serious than I thought.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scherner continued:<\/p>\n<p id=\"j0FbUJ\">\u201cI let the fight play out because at any moment she\u2026 She wasn\u2019t using her right hand, but I was looking at her face and she didn\u2019t appear to be in pain or anything like that, so I thought it was serious but that she could continue,\u201d he said. \u201cI didn\u2019t think about throwing in the towel. We spoke about it after the fight and I saw the X-ray, I apologized to her for making that call, and she said, \u2018It was the right call because I wanted to go back and continue fighting. I would be disappointed if you had stopped the fight.\u2019 I think it was the right call because she really wanted to go back.<\/p>\n<p id=\"0xWUV8\">\u201dI didn\u2019t ask her if she wanted to continue or not because she would lose confidence in the fight,\u201d he added. \u201cI want to make clear that it was my decision to let the fight continue, and I would take all the responsibility if something worse had happened. But what matters to me is her opinion about it, and she was happy with my decision. She thought it was the right thing, and that\u2019s what matters to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Paige VanZant should have been allowed to continue fighting after admitting her arm was broken?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 1\/16\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, in the co-main event of the UFC&#8217;s debut in St. Louis, MO, Paige VanZant came up short in her flyweight debut, giving up a decision to Jessica-Rose Clark.\u00a0While VanZant lost, however, she showed remarkable toughness, surviving three rounds despite sustaining broken arm mid-fight. Speaking to MMAFighting.com,\u00a0VanZant&#8217;s coach Fabiano Scherner explained why he let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":267881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10124],"tags":[],"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>Coach explains choice to let Paige VanZant fight with broken arm | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Coach Fabiano Scherner explains his choice to let Paige VanZant continue fighting despite sustaining a serious injury mid-contest.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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