Steve “The Robot” Cantwell ready to battle at UFC 97!
Steve “The Robot” Cantwell has been preparing for his battle against Luiz “Banha” Cane at UFC 97. The current WEC light heavyweight champion had this to say about the upcoming fight: “I have trained harder for this fight than any other fight in the past. It’s going to be a great fight. I don’t plan on letting the judges decide the outcome. I am ready to leave it all in the ring and show the canadian fans how it’s done.” Watch Steve throw leather Saturday at 7pm pacific live on pay-per-view from the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada
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Chase Beebe Forced To Withdraw From UWC Match Due To Injury
Date: February 25th, 2009
Location: Chicago, IL
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Chase Beebe Forced To Withdraw From UWC Match Due To Injury
Chase Beebe was forced to withdraw from his title match against Mike “The Hulk” Easton at the UWC “Man ‘O’ War” match, due to a severe knee injury. The title bought was to take place Saturday February 21st at the Patriot Center in Fairfax, VA as the main event. Chase sustained a serious injury to his knee in a fast pace training session on February 9th, while attempting a takedown and got leg hiked by one of his training partners. He heard a loud “pop”, felt shooting pain, and immediately hit the mat. His knee began to swell right away. Chase met with his doctor, who assessed his swollen knee as a severe sprain. His medical opinion was that Chase should not train or fight on the knee for two to three weeks. “It was the worst feeling in the world. I worked so hard to get to that point, and I hated the idea of letting my fans down. I just had to keep going and ignore the pain.”
Despite his doctor’s orders to rest, Chase began training again on February 16th and immediately re-injured the knee. His doctor told him that if he continued to train he risked a career-ending injury. His body needed time to heal and five days was simply not enough time. Chase recognized he could not cut the amount of weight needed for the match on an injured knee, and reached out the promoter to talk about his options.
“I didn’t want to let my fans or my opponent down so I offered to fight at a reasonable catch weight against my doctors and teams advice, but the promoter would only give me a pound and wanted to keep it a title match. I can’t run on the knee, I can barley move around at all. It would not have been a good match for me, Mike Easton, the UWC or the fans. I will be back in the ring shortly.”, said Beebe.
Chase is focused on healing in time to compete in his upcoming DREAM bantamweight tournament, which begins in Japan on March 8th and will be broadcast on HDNET. After the DREAM tournament Chase plans on coming back to give Mike Easton, and his fans the match they deserve.
“I’ll be back, and I’ll be back healthy. That’s what the fans want to see. Two guys in top shape going at it. I appreciate all of the planning and effort that goes into these events and I’m sorry to have let the UWC fans down, but once I heal I plan on putting on a hell of a show to make up for this unfortunate turn of events.”, commented Chase.
Chase Beebe trains with Clay and Mike French as well as Clay Guida at Midwest training center.
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