Mateus Mendonca fractures penis – surgery required
Former UFC fighter Mateus Mendonca fractured his penis while training jiu jitsu – if you didn’t just throw up in your mouth, you are not a man.
“I was training jiu-jitsu in Maranhão,” Mendonca said in an interview with AG Fight. “I was there spending holidays at my mother’s house. I went to train jiu-jitsu at my teacher’s academy, the day before returning to São Paulo. In the second roll, I went to roll with Bruno, and he put his knee on my private parts, when he was trying to pass the guard.
“I felt an absurd pain and ran to the bathroom; it started to burn. But then the pain passed, and I continued. When I was already here (in São Paulo), a month later, training normally, without pain, I started to notice some problems. I started to stir and there was a lump. Then I went to the hospital. When I got there, the doctor did an exam and immediately transferred me to another hospital to do this surgery,” said Mateus.
The 25-year-old fighter known as “Bocão” says that he will now wear a protective cup in all training.
“It’s good to be alert to everyone – all the guys who train jiu-jitsu, grappling, MMA, everything you have contact with: use a cup to avoid accidents. I, from today on, can be any training, I don’t train without a cup anymore (laughs). You have to prevent yourself. It doesn’t hurt, it prevents accidents, it avoids several things. I used to spar, and I wasn’t used to wearing a cup, no training.
“Almost no one is used to training with a cup, they only use it when they are going to fight. I’m going to tell everyone now: use the cup in any situation. Because at any moment it can happen (an accident). This had never happened to me, it was the first time, and look what happened, I had to have surgery, I have to stay out for two months.”
Mateus Mendonca holds an 11-3 professional mixed martial arts record and went 0-3 in the UFC after securing a win on Dana White’s Contender Series.
