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UFC’s Johnny Eduardo says his girlfriend fought while pregnant in Europe

Johnny Eduardo will step back inside the Octagon on June 3, as he meets Matthew Lopez at Rio de Janeiro’s UFC 212, and has experienced mixed emotions months before the event.

Days after his second-round victory over Manny Gamburyan in November, Eduardo flew to Finland to corner his girlfriend Vanessa Melo in MMA fight. Melo was fighting Suvi Salmimies at Cage 37, but no one knew that Melo got pregnant days before the bout.

"I’m already a father of three girls (Julia, Juliana and Lorena), and my girlfriend is pregnant,” Eduardo told MMA Fighting.