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Irvine, Calif., -- 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.

wow, like him or not, seeing him get hurt when he is at the top of his game is just sad.

Wow that is sad. When he went down in the corner it really didnt look that bad at all but he must have twisted and torn something because he was in a lot of pain after. Too bad he wont be able to race outdoors... Now theres no Villipoto, Reed or possibly Stewert for outdoors

I wonder if he will be back for the Monster Energy Cup? Im not a big Villipoto fan but I do think he is an incredible racer, it sucks too see him out.
The only good thing about all of the top guys being out is that all the other guys see this as their opporuntunity to win.
Im willing to bet that you see alot of racers stepping it up this summer!!!

yeah..shame so many of the top riders are out with injury. RV would have won easily the outdoor nationals.

cant see read coming back this year unless it is for the last rounds he hired ben townley to ride for him but townley crashed out and is 4mths away from recovering