Originally posted by: thabestevah
Date: June 18, 2010 at 04:18 PM
Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/strikeforce-and-m-1-global-fedor-vs-werdum-offic-thread.26906/
wolf said:
killadakiller said:
Sedulous said:
I predict Fedor will win, break his hand, and then not fight again for another year.
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Unfortunately that is a very real possibility. The guys hands are smashed, and once you have hand and feet problems they never get fully corrected. Look at the feet of Yao Ming and the hands of many boxers who have had there careers shortened by hand injuries. In MMA the hands get injured even easier than in boxing, you have tiny gloves and when you throw with the power Fedor throws with and already have bad hands you can easily smash them on any given punch. Hopefully he lands a nice punch clean on his jaw that puts Werdum right to sleep and there are no hand issues resulting from it.
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I LOL'd at your reference to Yao Ming. I mean, it's a good example...just totally out of the blue. Are you Rockets fan? But you're right. We've seen so many hands getting smashed lately, and they're even broken in training sometimes. The gloves really are too small, but if you make them bigger it makes it harder to grapple. Some scientist needs to come out with a revolutionary type of glove so we don't have these kind of problems anymore.
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I'm a huge Yao Ming fan. He is a big man who can shoot great, score in the post, and actually hits clutch shots and free throws Couldn't care less about the Rockets if he wasn't on the team. The guy has so much talent though, and it looks like feet problems are going to ruin his career, or already have.. Anyway, back on subject.
Sedulous said:
Or doctors should come up with a revolutionary surgery that will restore the hand back to pre-break conditions or better
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Either of those solutions would be great. I'm not sure how you would do surgery to return a hand or foot back to peak condition. They are very tiny bones, and when they break they are going to become more brittle. With the glove, if they made something you would have to make sure it didn't have too much padding to ruin the grappling aspect, and at the same time you can't have it as hard as a cast where guys are getting knocked out even easier than if there were no gloves on. I'm sure there is room for improvement with the gloves, but I'm not sure how much.
