Knee injuries have been an issue for Mauricio Rua since his first fight under the UFC banner more than 10 years ago. He’s managed to compensate and work through it at different points, but it again became too much to bare. Rua (25-10 MMA, 9-8 UFC), the former UFC light heavyweight champion, pulled out of this past month’s UFC Fight Night 117 headliner in Japan on less than two weeks’ notice . He was scheduled to rematch Ovince Saint Preux, but a problem with his left knee forced him to withdraw
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Former UFC champion Mauricio ‘Shogun’ Rua undergoes (another) knee surgery – MMA Junkie