On November 17, at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Georges St. Pierre will finally step back into the octagon for the first time since April 2011. Last December while preparing to defend the UFC welterweight championship against Nick Diaz, Georges sustained an anterior cruciate ligament injury. ACL's that are torn are usually associated to impact sports such as American Football where the knee is required to make severe changes in movement. Mixed martial arts is another sport that is high impact and demands a lot from the knees of a fighter especially when drilling wrestling. When wrestling all it takes is one wrong landing or one incorrect takedown and the knee is blown. For Georges it was defending the takedown in practice that led to the hyperextension of his right knee. After further inspection and an MRI it was discovered that Georges suffered both a complete tear of his ACL and a small tear of his internal meniscus on the right knee. It was an injury that requ...
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