CHARLOTTE – For the last month of her training camp for UFC on FOX 27, women’s strawweight Randa Markos started her day with a trip to a physiotherapist. He was the only one who gave Markos the thumbs up to compete. Every other doctor she went to said she couldn’t fight after partially tearing her MCL and completely tearing her patellar tendon. “He told me, ‘Don’t worry, I’ve seen this before, you’re going to be fine,’” Markos said after her gutsy win over Juliana Lima on the FS1-televised prelims, which took place Saturday at Spectrum Center in Charlotte, N.C. “He got my knee back to normal.” Markos (8-5 MMA, 4-4 UFC) went into the fight with a very specific game plan to avoid situations that could aggravate her physical limitations
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Randa Markos sheds light on overcoming knee injury before UFC on FOX 27 win – MMA Junkie