Bellator’s Daiane Silva No Longer Hospitalized After Weight Cut Scare

The worst may be over for Daiane Silva after spending more than a month in the hospital following a bad weight cut ahead of her proposed Bellator MMA debut.

Silva recently returned home to Brazil after spending more than a month under medical care and is gradually making progress in her recovery, according to an initial report from Yahoo! Sports. Silva was scheduled to compete at Bellator Champions Series London on Sept. 14, but was hospitalized due to severe dehydration while trying to cut to the featherweight limit of 146 pounds. The Brazilian fighter suffered from kidney failure as a result and was placed into a medically induced coma.

Manager Alexis Davis provided additional details regarding Silva’s progress in an interview with MMAFighting.com.

“The first prognosis we had was that she could be with dialysis for the rest of her life and it could take months for her to regain consciousness,” Davis said. “… Out of a very sorry prognostics, she is [now] walking, she is awake, she is off the dialysis machine. She’s talking. She has a little bit of difficulty, it was a very, very serious condition she came out of. She’s back in Brazil. She’s at a rehabilitation center and we expect her to be 100 percent recovered.”

While Silva is expected to make a full recovery, it is unclear if she will fight again. The 29-year-old was slated to face Eman Almudhaf at Bellator Champions Series London in what would have been her first bout at featherweight. Silva owns a 3-0 professional mark, but all of those fights occurred at 155 pounds.