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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
Every fighter from Saturday's UFC 129 event received a medical suspension of at least 14 days from the Ontario Ministry of Consumer Services' Office of the Athletics Commissioner, the governing body for the event at the Rogers Centre, according to a report from MMAJunkie.com.
Four fighters received 60-day suspensions for the injuries suffered in their fights on the card, as Georges St. Pierre, Mark Hominick, Randy Couture and Jason Brilz were all handed down the suspensions.
St. Pierre's suspension came due to the eye injury suffered in his victory over Jake Shields, while Hominick's suspension came due to facial swelling in his loss to Jose Aldo and Randy Couture and Jason Brilz were handed down the suspensions after their knockout losses to Lyoto Machida and Vladimir Matyushenko, respectively.
The full list of suspensions is below:
* Georges St-Pierre: Suspended 60 days due to eye injury and must have ophthalmologist's clearance before returning
* Jake Shields: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
* Jose Aldo: Suspended 30 days due to lacerations
* Mark Hominick: Suspended 60 days for precautionary reasons and must have a new CT scan completed
* Lyoto Machida: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
* Randy Couture: Suspended 60 days due to KO and must have a new CT scan completed
* Vladimir Matyushenko: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
* Jason Brilz: Suspended 60 days due to KO and must have a new CT scan completed
* Ben Henderson: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
* Mark Bocek: Suspended 30 days due to head laceration
* Rory MacDonald: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
* Nate Diaz: Suspended 45 days due to left-eye laceration
* Jake Ellenberger: Suspended 45 days and must have X-ray due to possible hand injury
* Sean Pierson: : Suspended 60 days due to KO and must have a new CT scan completed
* Claude Patrick: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
* Daniel Roberts: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
* Ivan Menjivar: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
* Charlie Valencia: Suspended 60 days due to KO and must have a new CT scan completed
* Jason MacDonald: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
* Ryan Jensen: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
* John Makdessi: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
* Kyle Watson: Suspended 60 days due to left-eye laceration and KO and must have a new CT scan completed
* Pablo Garza: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
* Yves Jabouin: Suspended 14 days for precautionary reasons
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Jamie Penick, editor-in-chief
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