Is Faber Expected To Recover?

The former WEC featherweight champion Urihah Faber needed to go directly to the hospital after his valiant fight with the reigning champion Mike Brown. He threw so many hard punishing punches that he actually broke his hand midway through the first round. He needed to opt out of attending the WEC 41 press conference in favor of taking care of his broken limb.

It became obvious by the second round that Faber indeed had some sort of hand problem as he was constantly throwing right elbow strikes instead of right punches, but he held in till the end, throwing elbow hits, kicks, punches with his left and even a choke in the fifth round. Brown took the battle in the end.

The x-rays show multiple injuries of varying degrees on at least two fingers. After his operation, he will need to give the injuries all the time they require to heal. If he starts back to fighting before they are fully healed, he will have a much larger chance of breaking them. If he takes a rest until he is notified by the doctors that he is totally and completely healed, he has a chance of those fingers being stronger than they were before they were broken. Which do you think he is likely to do?