The worst may be over for Diane Silva, who spent more than a month in the hospital after making an inappropriate weight cut for her scheduled Bellator MMA debut.
As first reported by Yahoo!, Silva recently returned to Brazil after more than a month of treatment and is slowly recovering. Sports. Silva was scheduled to compete at the Bellator Champions Series in London on September 14, but was hospitalized due to severe dehydration while trying to cut down to the featherweight limit of 146 pounds. As a result, the Brazilian fighter suffered kidney failure and was placed in a medically induced coma.
Manager Alexis Davis provided further details about Silva’s progress in an interview with MMAFighting.com.
“Our initial prognosis was that she would have to be on dialysis for the rest of her life and it could take many months before she regained consciousness,” Davis said. “…from the very disappointing prediction results, she 1732586658 As she walks, she is awake and off the dialysis machine. she is talking She had a little bit of a disability and it was a very serious condition that she came out of. She returned to Brazil. She is admitted to a rehabilitation center and is expected to make a 100 percent recovery. ”
Silva is expected to make a full recovery, but it is unclear whether he will fight again. The 29-year-old was scheduled to face Eman Almudaf at the Bellator Champions Series in London, which would have been her first fight at featherweight. Silva has a 3-0 record as a professional, but all of those fights took place at 155 pounds.
