EBANIE BRIDGES shared gruesome pictures of her hand surgery after breaking a bone in the build-up to her win over Shannon O’Connell.
Bridges beat her fellow Aussie in the eighth round to successfully defend her IBF bantamweight title.
But the avid Leeds fan revealed she went into the bout with a broken hand, having suffered the injury in training.
OnlyFans-sponsored Bridges has now gone under the knife and revealed her hand being worked on.
She posted: “Surgery done. Dr is happy.”
Bridges’ right hand was left brutally swollen after the stoppage victory and revealed the extent of her injury.
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She said: “Booked in for surgery on my hand this Friday.
“A lot of my camp was done with one hand. A lot of my sparring only using my left hand.
“But there was no way I was pulling out of that fight cos I knew I could batter her with one hand if needed and I wanted to.
“But now time to sort this.”
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Bridges, 36, was left in tears after beating O’Connell, 39, in the Aussie derby.
Her trainer Mark Tibbs said: “This queen of Australia, she is the best fighter I have ever worked with, reason being she is such a professional.
“I’m very very proud of her. She’s got the heart of a lion, she’s made of steel and there’s no quit in her.
“So we keep moving forward and she’s going to keep chipping away.”
Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
