OUCH!
Final Preventing Championship (UFC) Bantamweight veteran Davey Grant secured a win at UFC Tampa this previous weekend (Sat., Dec. 14, 2024) in opposition to Contender Sequence contract winner Ramon Taveras, scoring a unanimous resolution from inside Amalie Area in Tampa, Fla.
Grant’s hard-fought win was much more spectacular as a result of the U.Ok. fighter revealed on social media that he had been coping with a gnarly toe damage.
“Kicking was an enormous a part of the gameplan as at all times,” Grant wrote on Instagram. “Hassle is I broke my second toe on my proper foot 6 weeks out after which rattling close to severed my left little toe 3 weeks out, needing 5 stitches beneath so deep that the danger of dropping it or an infection had been a particular risk. Each accidents had been sustained in cage sparring rounds. This made coaching actually tough, carrying a lot of further safety and taking a lot of completely different precautions, however the help and remedy I had on the UFC P.I. was incredible, in addition to the due care and consideration of the coaches and coaching companions at Syndicate MMA we bought there wholesome and firing on all cylinders. Endlessly grateful.”
Contemplating how a lot Grant kicked in his struggle at UFC Tampa, it’s fairly superb that his foot, with the entire toe accidents, got here out fairly unscathed for essentially the most half.
Grant, 38, is again within the successful column after a really controversial cut up resolution loss to Daniel Marcos at UFC London final 12 months.
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