A UFC fighter has been slapped with a 6-month suspension after suffering a nose so bloodied a doctor called off her fight

• Liana Jojua has been slapped with a six-month medical suspension following her UFC 254 loss Saturday.
• An Octagonside doctor called off Jojua's flyweight match on Fight Island after Miranda Maverick landed an elbow strike that opened up a wide and weeping gash on Jojua's nose.
• Photographs after the fight showed Jojua with a stitched-up nose and a blood-splattered uniform.
• Clearance by an ear, nose, and throat doctor could reduce the suspension to 60 days, including 45 days with no contact training.

A UFC fighter has been slapped with a six-month medical suspension after suffering a bloody nose so severe that a doctor called off her fight.

Liana Jojua fought in the Fight Island finale on Saturday in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, but competed for just one round before the Octagonside doctor had seen enough.

Jojua's opponent, Miranda Maverick, opened a wide and weeping gash on her nose with an elbow strike the UFC boss Dana White later called "nasty."

Photographs showed Jojua stitched-up and with a blood-splattered uniform after the flyweight match at the behind-closed-doors Flash Forum.

MMA Fighting reported Tuesday that Jojua would be sidelined for half a year.

Should she get a medical clearance from an ear, nose, and throat doctor, however, then it would be reduced to a 60-day suspension with a mandatory 45 days on the sidelines with no contact training.

UFC 254 was headlined by the lightweight championship match between Khabib Nurmagomedov and Justin Gaethje, which Nurmagomedov won by second-round submission.

Both 155-pounders have been ordered to take seven days of rest.

Nurmagomedov, though, has retired and said he will never again compete in professional fighting.

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