It was a rough night at the office for Kyle
Daukaus at
UFC Austin last month.
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In addition to losing to Roman
Dolidze via first-round knockout, Daukaus revealed that he
suffered multiple facial fractures as a result of absorbing a knee
to the face from his opponent in the finishing sequence on June
18.
“During the fight, I got kneed, obviously,” Daukaus said in a video
on his Instagram account. “As soon as the knee landed, it kind of
broke my face in three places. The scans I got, I had two orbital
fractures, and I think I had a fracture in my eye socket as well
underneath.”
Daukaus returned home to Philadelphia after the event and underwent
surgery last week, where he had plates inserted into his face.
“Surgery went well, it was last Thursday,” he said. “I got three
plates put in, unfortunately, in my face. I got three plates on my
actual face, and then I have one underneath my eyeball, too, but
the one underneath my eyeball isn’t really a plate. It just kind of
molds to my bone, so it will eventually become one as opposed to
the ones that are actually screwed in my face and my cheekbone.
Things like this happen.”
Daukaus added that he is expected to need a recovery period of six
to eight weeks before he can resume training. The 29-year-old known
as “The D’Arce Knight” is 2-3 with one no contest in the UFC.