According to MMA Fighting Nicco Montaño has been forced out of this weekend’s UFC Rio Rancho card after suffering an injury. Montaño, the promotion’s first women’s flyweight champion, was expected to fight fellow TUF winner Macy Chiasson in a bantamweight contest.
Montaño’s manager Ricky Kottenstette told MMA Fighting that his fighter had suffered a grade 2 MCL sprain. Montaño had traveled to the UFC Performance Institute in Las Vegas to seek treatment, with hopes she could still fight this weekend. However, the knee injury proved serious enough to take her out of competition.