UFC champ Cain Velasquez's camp confused by report of broken jaw at UFC 166

UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez‘s camp just can’t understand why the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation’s Combative Sports division medically suspended the fighter for a suspected broken jaw following this past weekend’s UFC 166 event.

“The thing is totally fine, and it was totally fine,” Heidi Seibert, a spokesperson for Zinkin Entertainment, today told MMAjunkie.com. “He hasn’t seen a doctor or anything.”

She said there’s a reason for that: He didn’t feel there was a need to see one.

However, after handily defeating ex-champ Junior dos Santos (16-3 MMA, 10-2 UFC) via fifth-round in the pay-per-view headliner – and winning the second fight in the duo’s trilogy – Velasquez (13-1 MMA, 11-1 UFC) left Houston’s Toyota Center and celebrated the Oct. 19 victory. However, on Monday, the Texas commission then released a list of UFC 166 medical suspensions, and Velasquez was issued a lengthy six-month suspension due to a “possible broken jaw.”

That was news to Velasquez and his camp.

“He’s at the park with his family,” Seibert said. “He’s been eating whatever he wants. He’s fine.”

She said Velasquez got a few stitches on his nose immediately after the bout, visited the post-fight press conference to answer questions about his dominant victory, and then hopped into an awaiting car that took him to his after-party. A potential jaw injury was never discussed, so that made the report about the possible broken jaw all the more confusing, she said.

“He was at the after-party by 1:30 in the morning, feeling fine” Seibert said. ” … So we have no idea where it came from.”

A representative from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation said a cageside physician did, in fact, conclude the fighter may have suffered a broken jaw.

Although the commission’s paperwork didn’t specify that another physician can clear Velasquez early from the suspension, that’ll likely be his camp’s course of action.

So barring a surprise and painless broken jaw that has somehow got undetected by the champ, don’t expect Velasquez to be out of action for the full six months.

For complete coverage of UFC 166, stay tuned to the UFC Events section of the site.

(UPDATED on 10/24/13 at 12:45 p.m. ET with comments from a Texas commission rep.)