UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez?'s camp just can't understand why the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation's Combative Sports division medically suspended the fighter for a suspected broken jaw following this past weekend's UFC 166 event.
"The thing is totally fine, and it was totally fine," Heidi Seibert, a spokesperson for Zinkin Entertainment, today told MMAjunkie.com. "He hasn't seen a doctor or anything."
She said there's a reason for that: He didn't feel there was a need to see one.
However, after handily defeating ex-champ Junior dos Santos? (16-3 MMA, 10-2 UFC) via fifth-round in the pay-per-view headliner – and winning the second fight in the duo's trilogy – Velasquez (13-1 MMA, 11-1 UFC) left Houston's Toyota Center and celebrated the Oct. 19 victory. However, on Monday, the Texas commission then released a list of UFC 166 medical suspensions, and Velasquez was issued a lengthy six-month suspension due to a "possible broken jaw."
That was news to Velasquez and his camp.
"He's at the park with his family," Seibert said. "He's been eating whatever he wants. He's fine."
She said Velasquez got a few stitches on his nose immediately after the bout, visited the post-fight press conference to answer questions about his dominant victory, and then hopped into an awaiting car that took him to his after-party. A potential jaw injury was never discussed, so that made the report about the possible broken jaw all the more confusing, she said.
"He was at the after-party by 1:30 in the morning, feeling fine" Seibert said. " ... So we have no idea where it came from."
The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation couldn't be reached for comment or clarification.
However, though the commission's paperwork didn't specify that a physician can clear Velasquez early from the suspension, that'll likely be his camp's course of action.
So barring a surprise and painless broken jaw that has somehow got undetected by the champ, don't expect Velasquez to be out of action for the full six months.
Looks to me like they're saying that JDS broke his jaw but it spilled over into the area for Cain's medical info:
http://www.tdlr.state.tx.us/sports/results/Results%2010-19-13%20UFC.pdf
MMA Playwright - Looks to me like they're saying that JDS broke his jaw but it spilled over into the area for Cain's medical info:
http://www.tdlr.state.tx.us/sports/results/Results%2010-19-13%20UFC.pdf
Correct
that's pretty funny
MMA Playwright - Looks to me like they're saying that JDS broke his jaw but it spilled over into the area for Cain's medical info:
http://www.tdlr.state.tx.us/sports/results/Results%2010-19-13%20UFC.pdf
Oy..that's almost as bad as that simpson's episode when Homer was disqualified for writing "O.K." in the section that was labeled: "Do not write here".
Ham and eggers.
Well there it is right there.
Must've made JDS a little happy to think he broke Cain's jaw and now this. 
MITman2k -MMA Playwright - Looks to me like they're saying that JDS broke his jaw but it spilled over into the area for Cain's medical info:
http://www.tdlr.state.tx.us/sports/results/Results%2010-19-13%20UFC.pdf
Oy..that's almost as bad as that simpson's episode when Homer was disqualified for writing "O.K." in the section that was labeled: "Do not write here".
lol
MMA Playwright - Looks to me like they're saying that JDS broke his jaw but it spilled over into the area for Cain's medical info:
http://www.tdlr.state.tx.us/sports/results/Results%2010-19-13%20UFC.pdf
Problem solved. Never seen one of these before. Thank you
MMA Playwright - Looks to me like they're saying that JDS broke his jaw but it spilled over into the area for Cain's medical info:
http://www.tdlr.state.tx.us/sports/results/Results%2010-19-13%20UFC.pdf
Oh shit. 
MITman2k -LOLMMA Playwright - Looks to me like they're saying that JDS broke his jaw but it spilled over into the area for Cain's medical info:
http://www.tdlr.state.tx.us/sports/results/Results%2010-19-13%20UFC.pdf
Oy..that's almost as bad as that simpson's episode when Homer was disqualified for writing "O.K." in the section that was labeled: "Do not write here".
LOL more AC incompetence.
Guys,
Texas commish got back to me this morn, and it wasn't a writing error. Their doc did assess a possible broken jaw.
ReturnofJaco - Guys,
Texas commish got back to me this morn, and it wasn't a writing error. Their doc did assess a possible broken jaw.
Who is you, my fren?
A guy with a broken jaw doesnt go to an after party.
lueng jon - A guy with a broken jaw doesnt go to an after party.Right? Or answer questions at the post fight conference.
ConditJustGSPeedHisPants -lueng jon - A guy with a broken jaw doesnt go to an after party.Right? Or answer questions at the post fight conference.
Or is at the park with his family right now.