Sage Northcutt isn’t fully recovered from extensive facial surgery, but he at least looks better.
Last week, Northcutt suffered a brutal loss in his ONE Championship debut when he was knocked out with one punch by Cosmo Alexandre in just 29 seconds at ONE Championship 96.
Even though the finish was devastating, with Northcutt face-planting onto the canvas, he appeared OK just a few minutes later. But the next day, Northcutt shared the news that he’d undergone a nine-hour surgery in Singapore to repair eight facial fractures.
Four days later, on Wednesday, Northcutt followed up with an update, naturally seeming upbeat while also looking better than before (via Instagram).
Still in the hospital recovering in Singapore getting better.. thanks for all the prayers!
Northcutt didn’t provide a date for when he’d be released from the hospital or a timetable for his return to the cage.
UFC Hall of Famer Urijah Faber, who was in Northcutt’s corner at ONE Championship 96, provided more context to the injury during an appearance this week on “The MMA Hour.”
“Sage went one way and then the other way, first time in a ring, and literally gets manhunted with the nastiest punch and crushes his whole face,” Faber said. “Basically splintered his cheek into 30 pieces and broke his orbital bone. He had eight different fractures and literally they had to pick the pieces of the bone fragments out, 30 different pieces out of his face.”
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