By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
Although he pulled out of the one-night-only tournament for Shine Fights earlier this month with an injury, Marcus Aurelio says he is recovered and ready to fight Shinya Aoki at DREAM 16 this month, according to a report from MMAJunkie.com.
But it's not quite as simple as that. According to Shine COO Jason Chambers, Shine still needs to give Aurelio permission to take the fight, but that permission has not yet been granted.
"After the (Sept. 10) event, I haven't had a chance to discuss that yet," Chambers said, per the report. "Contractually, when he signed for our tournament, he has the ability to fight anywhere, as long as it's with our approval. We have to discuss whether or not this elbow injury was something that was facilitated to pull out of the tournament or whether it's a legitimate elbow injury.
"My personal feeling is that if he is genuinely injured and he couldn't fight, then that's fine. If he has this injury as a way to get out of doing the tournament because he wants a different situation, I'm not OK with that ethically or contractually."
Aurelio needs to provide Shine with documentation of his injury, and if he fails to do so it appears clear that Shine will try to block him from taking the fight with Aoki. DREAM 16 takes place on September 25, and airs live in North America on HDNet.
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Penick's Analysis: I really don't know what to believe on Aurelio's injury here. It's possible that the injury was legitimate yet minor enough to be fine a few weeks later, but it's also just as possible that the last minute venue change for the Shine event - plus the fact that it was unsanctioned and everything else that went wrong with the event - was too much for him and he found a way out. Chambers would be right to be upset if the latter was the case, but we'll see what happens in the next week to see if Aurelio gets his clearance to fight.
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