Struggling a unanimous determination loss to Norma Dumont on the preliminary card of Noche UFC final night time, former title challenger, Irene Aldana suffered what’s going to possible go down as some of the nasty and unpleasant lacerations in fight sports activities historical past — requiring a number of stitches.
Aldana, the present quantity 5 ranked divisional contender, returned in a single day on the preliminary card of Noche UFC on the Las Vegas Sphere, taking over fellow contender, Dumont — dropping a judging loss to the Brazilian over the course of three rounds.
Nevertheless, battling by way of huge adversity from halfway by way of the second spherical to the top of the pairing, Aldana was cut up with an enormous reduce simply above her proper eye — showing to stretch a number of inches, and certain requiring huge quantities of stitches to shut.
Irene Aldana suffers ghastly reduce in determination loss to Norma Dumont at Noche UFC
Reacting to the Mexican striker’s ghastly laceration, followers and fellow fighters — together with former interim light-weight gold holder, Justin Gaethje questioned the severity of the reduce — with many claiming it to beat out Marvin Eastman’s notorious laceration in opposition to Vitor Belfort as the largest reduce in Octagon historical past.
Competing for undisputed bantamweight gold again in June of final yr in the principle occasion of UFC 289, Lobo Health club staple, Aldana suffered a one-sided unanimous determination defeat to former two-division champion, Amanda Nunes within the pair’s headliner in Canada.
Rebounding to profitable methods at UFC 296 again in December of final yr earlier than final night time’s determination loss to Dumont, Aldana would flip in a unanimous judging triumph in opposition to Karol Rosa over the course of three rounds.
