Chris Weidman looking at neck surgery in the next week or two, still expects to fight at MSG

Now that Chris Weidman is on the sidelines for UFC 199 with a neck injury, the former middleweight champion has switched gears to correcting his problem so that he can compete again. Weidman has been visiting doctors in Pittsburgh and New York City to determine the best course of action to fix a herniation that’s been plaguing him physically and causing weakness in his triceps and forearm areas.As a guest on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour, Weidman said he has four bulging discs and two herniations, but only one of those has produced symptoms that are forcing him to take action. The process to get educated on the procedure has been the only delay, and he is still weighing which option to go with. Though he expects to have surgery soon.”It’s going to be sooner rather than later,” he said, when asked when the surgery would take place. “The other thing I was running into is some doctors who were saying you’ve got to get this taken care of now, like ASAP, because the nerve is getting damaged every second of every day. And then other doctors were like, you know, there’s a good chance if you just wait another couple of weeks it just goes away completely. I don’t know what to believe. But looks like I’m going to be getting surgery in the next week or two.” Weidman was scheduled to fight Luke Rockhold …

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