Jan
Blachowicz will admittedly need some time to regain his famed
“Polish Power” as he awaits a shoulder surgery that has him
sidelined.
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The former Ultimate Fighting Championship light heavyweight champ
was scheduled to fight Aleksandar
Rakic in a rematch at UFC 297
in January but was forced out of the matchup due the injury. While
it was initially assumed that the injury happened in camp,
Blachowicz revealed that it had been building up for a while.
“I feel it for like three years, something like this,” Blachowicz
told BJPenn.com. “I
feel pain in my shoulders, but I accept the pain. Last three
months, two months, I started losing my power, my strength. Forty
percent goes, I tried and do something with physiotherapy and
doctors, and they tried to fix it but every training was worse.
“When I did wrestling, I’d hold someone and they’d just grab my
hand and open it like this, too easy. We did an MRI on both
shoulders because I feel pain in both of them, and I need to clean
it. If I were to clean it, I can come back to training. They said
after this, after good recovery, my power will be back. I feel
pain, but the pain is OK. The power, I feel like a 2-year-old girl,
so it’s not possible to prepare for a fight.”
While Blachowicz ideally wanted to return to action early next
year, he might have to wait longer depending on the surgery.
“I was hoping for the first part of the new year, but we will see,”
he said. “First of all, I need to do this surgery and rehab, then
we can start thinking about it. I need to go to the gym and do a
sparring session, I want to feel my power again and I can find a
new fight.”