UFC’s Brian Ortega suffered nasty cut three weeks prior to fight

Brian Ortega had quite a lot of adversity to cope with earlier than coming into the cage at UFC Combat Night time 237.

Ortega (15-4 MMA, 7-4 UFC) avenged his loss to Yair Rodriguez (18-5 MMA, 10-4 UFC) by second-round submission in this past Saturday in Mexico City.

As Bruce Buffer launched Ortega within the octagon, “T-Metropolis” jumped up and sprained his ankle within the touchdown – however that’s not the one factor he needed to fear about. His coach, Rener Gracie, revealed on Instagram that Ortega suffered a gash below his proper eye in coaching, simply weeks earlier than his battle.

“Three weeks earlier than the battle, Brian caught a nasty head butt whereas coaching @GracieUniversityHQ. Slide 2.

“It was so deep that he needed to get 4 stitches on the within and 10 on the floor. Slide 3.

“Being so near the battle we knew that one mild punch in that area would have busted it proper open. It was our greatest concern (till he rolled his ankle throughout Spherical 0 🤣).

“The day after the stitches went in, after I texted him asking if he nonetheless needed to battle, he and @mikesaffaie despatched me a video response. Slide 4.”

Ortega battled by adversity after a tough first spherical during which he was dropped and badly harm. He survived and rallied to submit Rodriguez with an arm-triangle choke in Spherical 2.

It was his first battle since shedding to Rodriguez in July 2022 in a bout the place he injured his shoulder.

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