A Long Road Back for Saimon Oliveira

Nearly 800 days have passed since Saimon Oliveira last set foot inside the Octagon. The Dana White’s Contender Series graduate spent his time on the sidelines searching for the confidence that was stolen away from him by a life-threating injury suffered ahead of a canceled 2022 clash with Kyung Ho Kang.

“A little over a month before that bout, I had a training accident,” Oliveira told Sherdog.com. “I took a spinning kick to the stomach. It caused a serious injury that forced me to drop out. I had to undergo emergency surgery for an intestinal rupture. It was a shock to the system since my career had been going so well up to that point. Had I not arrived at the hospital fast enough, I could…