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Amanda Ribas to undergo facial surgery after Tabatha Ricci elbow displaced metal plate at UFC Abu Dhabi: ‘That scared me’

July 27, 2025 2 Min Read
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Amanda Ribas to undergo facial surgery after Tabatha Ricci elbow displaced metal plate at UFC Abu Dhabi: ‘That scared me’
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Amanda Ribas should go below the knife after her UFC Abu Dhabi loss to Tabatha Ricci on Saturday, and that’s courtesy of a brutal elbow strike.

Ribas went down in spherical two after consuming an elbow within the clinch, and the referee stopped the bout after just a few extra pictures had been thrown on July 26. Ribas revealed hours later that the elbow displaced the steel plate she inserted within the space in July 2023, after dropping to Maycee Barber.

“I’ll need to have surgical procedure over the opposite surgical procedure I had earlier than,” Ribas wrote on Instagram tales. “I feel the plate was a bit unfastened. Those that had been with me know I used to be continually coaching with complications, and I believed it was nothing. It seems that with the affect of the strike, the plate moved and bought the muscle out of place, and it’s urgent I don’t know what.

“That scared me as a result of every physician would come and say one thing totally different in a language I don’t know, and I used to be in a lot ache I couldn’t even communicate Portuguese correctly. However the hospital could be very fancy, all the things is ideal, and I’ve no ache now. I’ll have surgical procedure quickly.”

In good spirits, Ribas supplied an replace an hour later, revealing she must anticipate the swelling to go off earlier than having the process performed. An individual with information of the promotion’s plans confirmed to MMA Combating Ribas’ surgical procedure is predicted to happen on Monday.

Ribas has now misplaced three in a row within the UFC, completed by strawweights Mackenzie Dern and Ricci after a flyweight determination loss to Rose Namajunas. Her UFC document is now right down to 7-6, being 1-3 because the first orbital bone fracture suffered towards Barber.

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