"It all came back very positive and looks as though I will not need surgery," Hughes wrote Wednesday on his blog of the results of his MRI and stress X-ray tests conducted last week. "I still have to go back for my three month check-up to find out more, but as of right now I can do more and start exercising a little bit."
Hughes suffered a torn MCL and a partially torn PCL when he landed awkwardly on his knee in the closing moments of his loss to Thiago Alves in the main event of the June 7 UFC 85 "Bedlam" in London.
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