Monster Energy Kawasaki’s Ryan Villopoto will not defend his AMA Motocross title in 2012 after injuring his knee at the Seattle supercross on Saturday night. The two-time AMA Supercross and defending AMA Motocross champion will undergo surgery on his knee this week.
“I’m pretty disappointed right now,” said Villopoto. “I have trained hard for this season and even though I won the supercross title, I really wanted to defend my outdoor championship. I’ve been through injury before and I know how hard I have to work to get back.”
Villopoto is coming off of a dominant 16 months where the Poulsbo, Wash. native earned two AMA Supercross titles on the strength of 15 wins, the AMA Motocross Championship with three wins and also the richest payday in supercross with a million dollar win at the Monster Energy Cup.
Ryan Villopto may want to think about skipping the Seattle Supercross round in the future. Even thought it is a home round for Villopoto he has had terrible luck there, having the horrible crash in 2010 that took him out of the Championship fight as he looked to making a run at the title, and now with the title luckily wrapped up as a result of all the other contenders injuries Ryan has his own injury issues which will take him out of the sport for the rest of the 2012 season. The other problem a injury has is that it kills any momentum that you may have built up, that winning seasons provide the ring of confidence and a seemingly armor of invincibility.
So what do you think about this development for the US Outdoor Motocross Championship? Will it be a snoozer with all the major players in the MX Heavies (450) class out for the year? Who is the favourite now to take the title? Will Stewart ride the outdoors now? Dungey? Alessi? Short? Millsaps? Metcalf? What a terrible time for Townley to be injured as he had Factory bikes and was near peak performance.
Let me know your opinion for the 2012 US Motocross season!
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