Dana White’s Contender Series (DWCS) winner Victoria Dudakova, 23, who competes in the weight class up to 52kg, said in a interview that she injured her knee More than a year ago. and aggravated the injury during the preparation and in the fight.
Dudakova on August 30 in Las Vegas defeated Brazilian Maria Silva by judges’ decision and received a contract with the UFC. Dudakova has six wins from six fights in MMA.
“I had a knee injury. I thought it wouldn’t interfere with me in the fight, and I put myself in place, they say, yes, my meniscus is torn. I tore it a year ago months, when I had just arrived in America. We arrived and almost immediately, without joining, we began to fight. I fought with Timur Valiev, he wanted to make a pass to the legs, I retreated of a step to answer, and because of stepping back my knee became unstable, I fell.
As a result, I fell about six times later due to issues with that knee. They wanted to do an MRI, we were dissuaded. We went to the doctor, they gave us injections that were supposed to reduce the inflammation, but that didn’t help much: in principle, not a single injection would help the meniscus, and we were told that it would reduce the inflammation. inflammation of the ligaments that were very close to here.
In the second round, for some reason, I tried to take a hold, I jumped on this knee, and from that moment everything went like this … At the end of the round, when we stood up, I took a step back, and my knee just doubled over from that step back. I didn’t even feel pain, but my leg was bent. I tried to get up quickly so as not to stop the fight.
– How did you know it was a meniscus injury if you didn’t do an MRI?
– I had an injury a year ago – a rupture of the horn of the medial meniscus, but we did not have an operation. Somehow it happened, there was a recovery just before New Years, then a month or two of back training, and slowly it seemed to stop bothering me. We went to see three doctors and everyone said: you have to do an operation, the meniscus will not heal. I asked if it was possible without surgery, maybe physiotherapy. Everyone told me the meniscus wouldn’t heal. Then, with another injury, I went to see an orthopedist, and he honestly told me that although the meniscus had stopped bothering me, one day it would make itself felt, because it was damaged and unstable. That’s what happened here, and for the whole month he was sick with me, ”Dudakova said.
Previously, Dudakova won the Open FC league title and refused to participate in the Ural FC tournament in order to get the opportunity to play in the United States.
Source : MatchTV
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