{"id":273930,"date":"2018-04-05T08:19:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T15:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=273930"},"modified":"2018-10-10T20:55:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T03:55:30","slug":"exclusive-matt-brown-explains-how-he-sustained-injury-that-forced-him-out-of-carlos-condit-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/exclusive-matt-brown-explains-how-he-sustained-injury-that-forced-him-out-of-carlos-condit-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE | Matt Brown explains how he injured ACL, gives timeframe for return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BJPENN.COM Radio Ep. 77 \/\/ Colby Covington | Matt Brown | Amanda Cooper\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TLn7kDLMgMw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By now, you&#8217;ve surely heard the news. Matt Brown has been <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/matt-brown\/matt-brown-is-off-the-ufc-glendale-card\/\">forced out of his anticipated UFC Glendale scrap with Carlos Condit<\/a> with an ACL injury, and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/carlos-condit\/with-matt-brown-out-carlos-condit-gets-new-opponent-for-ufc-glendale\/\">replaced by Brazil&#8217;s Alex &#8220;Cowboy&#8221; Oliveira.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the latest edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/podcasts\/bjpenn-com-radio-ep-77-colby-covington-matt-brown-amanda-cooper\/\">BJ Penn Radio<\/a>, Brown explained how he sustained the injury that nixed his anticipated war with Condit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was actually just warming up,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I was defending a single leg. Dude had my leg up in the air and I just planted on my plant leg and I don&#8217;t know&#8230; Maybe I was fatigued, maybe I got caught on the mat the wrong way. It&#8217;s really hard to say. It happened so fast and I wasn&#8217;t doing anything crazy, I wasn&#8217;t pushing it hard or anything. So, it&#8217;s just one of those things, man, and all I can do is come back stronger at this point, so I&#8217;m just looking forward to coming back and pushing it hard as I can, to pushing my rehab hard as I can so that I can get back as quickly as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brown also updated on his expected recovery process:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just left the orthopedic surgeon,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He went over the MRI with me and everything, and I&#8217;m fortunate that it&#8217;s only my ACL. There&#8217;s nothing else that is torn, nothing else even damaged, and he said that my knee actually looks really healthy. But unfortunately the ACL is a pretty major problem and I&#8217;ll be going to surgery next Tuesday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I guess my options are the hamstring graft, the patella graft\u2014which is probably last option\u2014or the cadaver,&#8221; Brown continued, discussing the surgery itself. &#8220;Those are the only three that I was mentioned, and I&#8217;m leaning towards the cadaver, but the doctor actually recommended hamstring. So, I&#8217;m talking to some people that have been through it. I was just talking to Joe Lauzon this morning. So, just talking to a few different people, getting their opinions, and doing all my research. [I&#8217;ll] do my due diligence and we&#8217;ll make a decision before Tuesday, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll certainly talk to the UFC doctors, and I&#8217;ll talk to as many people as I can. I put an Instagram post this morning and asked my followers what their opinions were and I&#8217;ve heard all different angles and good and bad stories from both. So, it doesn&#8217;t sound like it&#8217;s gonna be a clear-cut way and at this point it sounds like a crap-shoot, really. Just throw darts and pick one and hopefully it works out for the best, but, like I said, I&#8217;ll do my due diligence and come to my own conclusion. I have a little bit of time to do it, so no rush.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So when does Matt Brown expect to be back in the cage? That&#8217;s hard to say, but he&#8217;s hoping to be back on the mats in 6 months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[The doctor] said probably six months to return to any sort of training, which is, from what I understand, pretty standard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping Matt Brown has a speedy and straightforward recovery! 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