Thiago Santos had right knee medical procedure before UFC

 239 battle with Jon JonesThiago Santos endured left knee damage in the first round of his title session with Jon Jones at UFC 239 in Las Vegas, NV, on July 6. Turns out that his other knee wasn't 100 percent until weeks before the battle.

Hours after the challenge, Santos' mentor 'Goodbye' Duarte talked with MMA Fighting and uncovered that "Marreta" had medical procedure on his correct knee not long after consenting to battling Jones not long ago, however kept it a mystery from everybody. As indicated by Duarte, Santos battled and beat Jan Błachowicz in February with a torn meniscus.

"The camp began with a 45-day postponement and Thiago just had two months to plan for this battle, yet at the same time would not like to haul out," Duarte said. "The specialist gave us a course of events yet we had an issue later. Heather (Linden), physical specialist of the UFC, was the person who recuperated his knee. She was at UFC 237 in Rio and continued taking a shot at his knee for six days in a row and discovered what the issue was and had the option to fix it. That is the point at which he began his camp.

"We let him know, 'Thiago, how about we haul out of the battle,' and he stated, 'No, I won't haul out.' He would not like to. We did this camp in two months. It ought to have been in any event three months, yet we didn't have that time."

Santos has a meeting with a specialist in Las Vegas on Monday to discover the degree of the left knee damage he endured Saturday night. Duarte says it's most likely tendon damage, and is "imploring" that it's not genuine.

Duarte is pleased with Santos for what he had the option to do during the 25-minute session, and marvels what might have occurred on the off chance that he hadn't endured the left knee damage in the opening minutes.

"On the off chance that that knee hadn't halted him, Jon Jones would have gone down, no uncertainty," Duarte said. "Our course of action was good to go, 'Marreta' was seeing everything. Also, after he began harming Jon Jones' legs he started to lose portability, it was too simple to even consider putting him out, man, however we depended on changing positions to complete it. He began the mixes yet couldn't proceed "(Jones) regarded him since he was getting hit. That is reality," he proceeded. "He began to feel agony and thought, 'Man, this person hits extremely hard. What am I going to do?' He knows Thiago has knockout power. Somewhere down in there, he knows who 'Marreta' was. He realized he would need to slaughter 'Marreta'.