Deiveson Figueiredo suffered a nasty knee damage in his loss to Cory Sandhagen at UFC Des Moines, however the two-time flyweight champion received’t must endure surgical procedure to restore the harm performed.
On Thursday, Figueiredo’s supervisor Alex Davis advised MMA Preventing that the Brazilian suffered a tear within the anterolateral ligament in his knee. Fortuitously for the fighter, the damage wasn’t extreme sufficient to require him to go below the knife. As a substitute, Figueiredo simply must undergo bodily remedy, which he has already began, and relaxation the knee as he recovers.
The damage occurred within the second spherical when Sandhagen sat up throughout a grappling change. As Sandhagen shifted ahead, his legs have been tousled with Figueiredo, who instantly grimaced from ache in his knee. A second later, Figueiredo was tapping out and the combat was stopped with Sandhagen incomes the victory by TKO because of an damage.
“It’s very painful,” Davis advised MMA Preventing in regards to the sort of knee damage Figueiredo suffered. “However he didn’t get completed. It was only a freak accident.”
Replays confirmed Figueiredo’s knee seemingly popping when Sandhagen sat up from the grappling change and the pained look on his face was plain. Figueiredo was finally helped out of the octagon earlier than returning residence to Brazil the place he sought medical remedy.
With a prognosis that enables him to keep away from surgical procedure, Figueiredo is “already asking to combat once more” with hopes he’ll be capable to return to the health club sooner reasonably than later.
It was an unlucky ending to the combat after Figueiredo hoped to get again on observe when he confronted Sandhagen within the UFC’s return to Iowa. The loss Figueiredo was his second straight after incomes three spectacular wins in a row following a transfer from flyweight as much as bantamweight.
Whereas there’s no actual timeline on when Figueiredo would possibly guide one other combat, Davis says he’s anxious to get again to work as soon as his knee heals and he expects to hit the bottom operating.
