A women's MMA fighter struggling to cut weight has finally figured out why she's having a harder time than usual -- she is six months pregnant. Not only that, Kinberly Novaes, 24, won her last fight on May 17. If you do the math, she won her fight while she was 12 weeks pregnant.
"We did a morphology ultrasound last week and the doctor said I'm 24 weeks pregnant, almost six months, and my baby is healthy and strong," Novaes told MMA Fighting. "I was worried because I trained hard, fought, cut weight. I suffered a lot to make weight for my last fight, couldn't dehydrate properly, and I was already training to fight again next week, but the doctor said everything is fine."
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A photo posted by Kinberly Novaes (@kinberlynovaes) on Jul 13, 2015 at 10:17am PDT
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It's hard to come up with an answer to which part of this is more shocking. Is it that Novaes fought while pregnant, and then continued to train for another fight when even more pregnant? Or is it that the pre-fight medical tests failed to detect a pregnancy? And the fact that Novaes' first name is Kinberly, and not Kimberly, is a dark horse in this race.
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Bruno Barros, the owner of Noxii and the promoter behind the fights, has fessed up to not conducting particularly thorough examinations.
"I didn't ask for the exam. That's the truth," Barros told MMA Fighting. "I didn't even think about the possibility of a woman fighting while pregnant, going through a camp and dehydrating and everything."
Novaes was scheduled to fight Jocelyn Jones-Lybarger on August 21, but that is obviously not going to happen. There's no date yet for Novaes to return to action.
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