Deiveson Figueiredo avoids surgery after ‘very painful’ knee injury, anxious to fight again

Cory Sandhagen and Deiveson Figueiredo | Photo by Randy Thomas/Getty Images Deiveson Figueiredo suffered a nasty knee injury in his loss to Cory Sandhagen at UFC Des Moines, but the two-time flyweight champion won’t have to undergo surgery to repair the damage done.
On Thursday, Figueiredo’s manager Alex Davis told MMA Fighting that the Brazilian suffered a tear in the anterolateral ligament in his knee. Fortunately for the fighter, the injury wasn’t severe enough to require hi