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08-29-2006, 05:18 PM
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Rich "Ace" Franklin recently spoke with MMAWeekly about the progress of his injuries, mental toughness in the fight game, and the UFC's middleweight division...
MMAWeekly: It’s been a while. How is your health?
Rich Franklin: Everything is good, man... I’m able to do everything except spar at this point. I just can’t punch with my hands, but I can roll and everything else. My first day of actually rolling with my training partners and stuff... accidental knee to my left eyebrow and [I] got seven stitches.
MMAWeekly: Wow. That’s not good.
Franklin: I guess God is telling me that I need more time off.
MMAWeekly: Could be. It could be. It was interesting, for those people in Canada that watch The Fight Network; they get to see our post-fight coverage, and I remember talking with you right after and seeing your hand. It looked like you had a baseball on top of your hand. You were icing both hands. You had your ankle iced up as well. When I talked to you, you said you think you may have torn ligaments during the Evan Tanner fight...
Franklin: Yeah. I think I injured my ankle during the Tanner fight. The ligaments were partially torn, and I had never rehabilitated it properly. I had the same problem after that fight... because I went immediately from the fight [with Evan Tanner in June 2005] to coaching TUF 2... and the first week or week and a half of coaching the show, I was on crutches. I was on crutches for the first, like, three or four days. We did some shots where we would put me into position, and they’d get rid of the crutches so you couldn’t tell I was on crutches.
MMAWeekly: Leading up to the Loiseau fight, how much pain were you in, in that fight just with the ankle?
Franklin: Well, not really. What happened was, I threw a kick to the body at one point, and he turned, and I caught his elbow right there, where the foot ties in with the leg. It hurt. I don’t know if it, like, shifts the foot or what it does to it, but I could tell with what was hurting... not so much for movement, but it really made a difference with the power of my kicks. It made me more tentative, and I think that’s part of the reason, maybe, of why I got caught in the third round with that hook.
MMAWeekly: You broke your hand... did you say in the first round with Loiseau?
Franklin: The second round.
Rich "Ace" Franklin recently spoke with MMAWeekly about the progress of his injuries, mental toughness in the fight game, and the UFC's middleweight division...
MMAWeekly: It’s been a while. How is your health?
Rich Franklin: Everything is good, man... I’m able to do everything except spar at this point. I just can’t punch with my hands, but I can roll and everything else. My first day of actually rolling with my training partners and stuff... accidental knee to my left eyebrow and [I] got seven stitches.
MMAWeekly: Wow. That’s not good.
Franklin: I guess God is telling me that I need more time off.
MMAWeekly: Could be. It could be. It was interesting, for those people in Canada that watch The Fight Network; they get to see our post-fight coverage, and I remember talking with you right after and seeing your hand. It looked like you had a baseball on top of your hand. You were icing both hands. You had your ankle iced up as well. When I talked to you, you said you think you may have torn ligaments during the Evan Tanner fight...
Franklin: Yeah. I think I injured my ankle during the Tanner fight. The ligaments were partially torn, and I had never rehabilitated it properly. I had the same problem after that fight... because I went immediately from the fight [with Evan Tanner in June 2005] to coaching TUF 2... and the first week or week and a half of coaching the show, I was on crutches. I was on crutches for the first, like, three or four days. We did some shots where we would put me into position, and they’d get rid of the crutches so you couldn’t tell I was on crutches.
MMAWeekly: Leading up to the Loiseau fight, how much pain were you in, in that fight just with the ankle?
Franklin: Well, not really. What happened was, I threw a kick to the body at one point, and he turned, and I caught his elbow right there, where the foot ties in with the leg. It hurt. I don’t know if it, like, shifts the foot or what it does to it, but I could tell with what was hurting... not so much for movement, but it really made a difference with the power of my kicks. It made me more tentative, and I think that’s part of the reason, maybe, of why I got caught in the third round with that hook.
MMAWeekly: You broke your hand... did you say in the first round with Loiseau?
Franklin: The second round.