Joanne Calderwood scored one of the most important victories of her career at UFC 242, but she might have to sit out awhile before she can capitalize on her victory.
Calderwood earned a split-decision victory over Andrea Lee in the featured strawweight prelim bout at Saturday’s card in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, but she’ll also have to miss up to six months due to a nasal issue coiming out of the fight.
That’s the most noteworthy item out of the medical suspensions for the event, which were obtained by MMA Junkie on Tuesday. With no official athletic commission to oversee the event in the U.A.E., the UFC self-regulated the card.
Calderwood could resume training sooner than the length of her suspension should she receive clearance from a doctor, which holds true for the remainder of the injured fighters.
Headliners Khabib Nurmagomedov and Dustin Poirier came out of the event relatively unscathed. Poirier must avoid contact for 30 days due to lacerations received in the bout, while lightweight champion Nurmagomedov must sit out seven days to rest.
The full list of UFC 242 medical suspensions:
- Khabib Nurmagomedov: 7 days mandatory rest
- Dustin Poirier: 30 days for left brow lacerations and eye lacerations
- Edson Barboza: 45 days for right eye laceration
- Paul Felder: 45 for left upper brow and scalp lacerations
- Islam Makhachev: 7 days for mandatory rest
- Davi Ramos: 30 days mandatory rest (foot X-rays were negative)
- Curtis Blaydes: 30 days for mandatory rest
- Shamil Amdurakhimov: 180 days for nasal fracture
- Maribek Taisumov: 45 days for nasal and left brow
- Carlos Diego Ferreira: 30 days foot (X-Rays negative)
- Joanne Calderwood: 180 days for nasal injury
- Andrea Lee: 30 days for mandatory rest
- Zubaira Tukhugov: 45 days for mandatory rest
- Lerone Murphy: 7 days for mandatory rest
- Liana Jojua: 60 days for TKO
- Sarah Moras: 30 days for mandatory rest
- Ottman Azaitar: 180 days left hand injury
- Teemu Packalen: 60 days for KO
- Belal Muhammad: 30 days for right temple
- Takashi Sato: 45 days for right brow laceration
- Nordine Taleb: 45 days for TKO (CT Scans negative)
- Muslim Salikov: 7 days for mandatory rest
- Omari Akhmedov: 30 for right infraorbital
- Zak Cummings: 30 days for nasal laceration
- Don Madge: 180 days right hand
- Fares Ziam: 30 days left hand pain
