Bellator fighter Daiane Silva’s health has improved significantly and she is reportedly on course to make a full recovery.
News surfaced last month that Silva had been placed under a medically induced coma after a botched weight cut in September caused her to suffer from kidney failure due to dehydration. Weeks after she was slated to make her featherweight debut at a Bellator card in London, Silva remained sedated in a London hospital.
A new report from Damon Martin of MMA Fighting states that Silva has not only come out of her coma but has travelled back to her home country of Brazil to continue her recovery.
“She is walking, she is awake, she is off the dialysis machine,” Silva’s manager, Alex Davis, told MMA Fighting. “She’s talking. She has a little bit of difficulty, it was a very, very serious condition she came out of. She’s back in Brazil. She’s at a rehabilitation center and we expect her to be 100 percent recovered.”
Silva suffering a coma, which was not publicly disclosed by Bellator/PFL until reports of her medical incident surfaced weeks after their London event, was a scare for the sport which brought back memories of past weight cut injuries and even deaths which have emerged in MMA. Thankfully, however, the latest update has been much more positive.
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