For five weeks Rich Franklin slept sitting straight up in a chair. Maybe ‘slept’ is the wrong word. ‘Dozed’ might be more appropriate, considering the quality of rest he got as he nodded off each night with his chin on his chest.
"I would fall asleep for an hour, hour and a half, then wake up. Then I’d fall back asleep for an hour or two and wake back up. It was like that for weeks on end," Franklin told MMA Fighting.
This was the result of shoulder surgery to repair a torn labrum he’d suffered in training before his scheduled bout with Antonio Rogerio Nogueira at
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