Tony
14-10-2009, 08:48
Ben Henderson Visited Three Different Emergency Rooms After Cerrone Fight (http://www.cagepotato.com/ben-henderson-visited-three-different-emergency-rooms-after-cerrone-fight)
http://cdn.cagepotato.com/www/sites/default/files/Ben_Henderson.jpg
(Smiling on the outside, damn near dying on the inside.)
While we marveled at how much WEC interim lightweight champion Ben Henderson was able to fight through (http://www.cagepotato.com/wec-43-results-henderson-edges-out-cerrone-main-event-semerzier-submits-fabiano-upset-year) en route to winning a very close and possibly bullshit (http://www.cagepotato.com/poor-misguided-donald-cerrone-actually-believes-he-lost-wec-43-fight) decision over Donald Cerrone (http://wiki.cagepotato.com/index.php/Donald_Cerrone) at WEC 43, he didn’t emerge unscathed from the five-round battle. Over at Versus.com, Ariel Helwani reports that after the fight Henderson collapsed in the locker room (http://www.versus.com/nw/article/view/83208/?UserDef=true&catID=2175&tf=ariel_helwani.tpl) and abruptly stopped sweating, which led to him being rushed to three different emergency rooms to receive a total of four IV’s to treat his dehydration.
As if that weren’t enough, a strike from Cerrone’s heel seriously injured his left eye in the closing seconds of the bout. There was some concern that he might have a detached retina, but after seeing a specialist they learned on Sunday morning that it wasn’t quite that bad, and he probably won’t need surgery. He’s scheduled to see another specialist back home in Phoenix today, but regardless of the diagnosis he will not be able to fight Jamie Varner (http://wiki.cagepotato.com/index.php/Jamie_Varner) in December. We’re sure that will disappoint WEC general manager Reed Harris, who could be heard instructing Henderson to “call [Varner] out” at the end of the Versus broadcast, but Henderson’s manager says he could be cleared to fight in January or February, assuming that the WEC is still around by then and his eye has become fully operational.
This fighting other people for money, it's a tough business, no?
http://cdn.cagepotato.com/www/sites/default/files/Ben_Henderson.jpg
(Smiling on the outside, damn near dying on the inside.)
While we marveled at how much WEC interim lightweight champion Ben Henderson was able to fight through (http://www.cagepotato.com/wec-43-results-henderson-edges-out-cerrone-main-event-semerzier-submits-fabiano-upset-year) en route to winning a very close and possibly bullshit (http://www.cagepotato.com/poor-misguided-donald-cerrone-actually-believes-he-lost-wec-43-fight) decision over Donald Cerrone (http://wiki.cagepotato.com/index.php/Donald_Cerrone) at WEC 43, he didn’t emerge unscathed from the five-round battle. Over at Versus.com, Ariel Helwani reports that after the fight Henderson collapsed in the locker room (http://www.versus.com/nw/article/view/83208/?UserDef=true&catID=2175&tf=ariel_helwani.tpl) and abruptly stopped sweating, which led to him being rushed to three different emergency rooms to receive a total of four IV’s to treat his dehydration.
As if that weren’t enough, a strike from Cerrone’s heel seriously injured his left eye in the closing seconds of the bout. There was some concern that he might have a detached retina, but after seeing a specialist they learned on Sunday morning that it wasn’t quite that bad, and he probably won’t need surgery. He’s scheduled to see another specialist back home in Phoenix today, but regardless of the diagnosis he will not be able to fight Jamie Varner (http://wiki.cagepotato.com/index.php/Jamie_Varner) in December. We’re sure that will disappoint WEC general manager Reed Harris, who could be heard instructing Henderson to “call [Varner] out” at the end of the Versus broadcast, but Henderson’s manager says he could be cleared to fight in January or February, assuming that the WEC is still around by then and his eye has become fully operational.
This fighting other people for money, it's a tough business, no?