Deiveson Figueiredo was involved in a car accident Thursday in Belem, Brazil, that left Land Rover destroyed after the fighter’s vehicle was allegedly sideswiped by another car.
The former UFC flyweight
champion posted a video on social media revealing he was driving his car at the Quintino Bocaiuva street in Belem “when a woman at high speed, apparently trying to flee, came out of a side street called Caripuna and hit the side of my vehicle, causing the car I was in to roll over several times.”
“I was alone in the car,” Figueiredo told MMA Fighting. “My car is bulletproof and thank God nothing happened to me.”
Watch the video below.
Figueiredo, 25-5-1 as a professional fighter, recently won a co-main event bout at UFC Rio over Montel Jackson, rebounding from back-to-back defeats to Petr Yan and Cory Sandhagen. The UFC has yet to announce his next assignment.
