Much has been made of the recent devastating injury to UFC bantamweight Julianna Peña . The Ultimate Fighter Season 18 winner was knocked out of her planned UFC 171 bout with Jessica Andrade due to a severe knee injury suffered in the gym where she trains, SikJitsu in Spokane, Wash. The initial prognosis was that Peña suffered tears in her ACL, MCL, LCL, meniscus, and hamstring. Most of the public scrutiny over the incident has fallen squarely on the shoulders of her training partner, Josh Gow, and Peña and Gow’s coach at SikJitsu, Rick Little. Much of that scrutiny has been propelled by UFC president Dana White, who unloaded on Peña’s gym and training partner, both with members of the media last week in New York and on Twitter. “Apparently, when she came into the gym, and again, she was hysterical when I talked to her, crying,” White said in a media scrum in New York.
See the rest here:
Julianna Pena’s Coach Refutes Injury Claims: “There Wasn’t Any Horseplay or Assault” – MMA Weekly