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Junior Dos Santos Out For 12 Weeks For Shoulder Surgery

April 28, 2016 | Posted by Joseph Lee

In a post on Instagram, Junior Dos Santos revealed that he had surgery to fix a shoulder injury. This comes after his win against Ben Rothwell at UFC Fight Night 86.

He wrote: “Despite being Brazilian I’ve never played soccer very well, I also wasn’t good enough on swimming or running or any other sports like those. But luckily I found myself in the fight world and I can say, I’m good it.

But fighting demands a lot and sometimes even in victory we can get hurt. I could say that now would be a very difficult time for me, but I actually feel blessed. I hurt my shoulder a bit but I won a great fight, and I’m having a excellent care so that very, very soon I will be 100% again.

I had a small shoulder surgery this morning and as my good friend Doctor Howard Gelb who took great care of me said, everything went perfectly and guess what! I’m already at home relaxing.

I just would like to let you guys know through me.

He also spoke to MMA Fighting about the surgery, revealing that he can resume training in 12 weeks.

He said: “I had surgery to repair my labrum and a level four injury on my rotator cuff. Level four is a serious injury, so I had to do this surgery.

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