At UFC Fight Night 69, Joanna Jedrzejczyk battered and bruised Jessica Penne to retain her UFC strawweight championship in the evening’s main event.

Following the bout, the champ revealed that she had potentially broken her thumb and would require surgery.

Joanna Jedrzejczyk underwent successful surgery

Last week, it was reported that Jedrzejczyk had injured her thumb, but no surgery was needed. This unfortunately wasn’t the case.

The Polish fighter posted on her official Instagram page that she went to see her doctor and surgery was necessary. One day later and the surgery was successful.

Yesterday I had an apointment with Dr. Shin and surgery was necessary. So today we had the procedure at Kerlan jobe, surgery was a sucess and everybody at the hospital was super nice to me. If everything goes ok I will be back in time to fight before the end of the year. #ufc #jj #jjchampion

A photo posted by Joanna (@joannajedrzejczyk) on Jul 3, 2015 at 12:05am PDT

According to the 27-year-old, if everything goes to plan then she will be able to return before the end of 2015. Jedrzejczyk won the 115-pound gold at UFC 185 against Carla Esparza and defended it in her last outing against Penne.

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