Maycee Barber’s comeback story isn’t built on losses, but on everything we didn’t see. Hospital stays. Blackouts. Nights, she sat on the kitchen floor, wondering if her fighting career was slipping through her fingers. It’s been 18 months of chaos, and somehow, not a single defeat on her record.

But the wait carried weight. Barber went from riding a six-fight surge to staring down medical charts thicker than scouting reports. From prepping for Rose Namajunas to waking up in an ambulance with no memory of what happened. And on November 3, via MMA Fighting, she finally laid out how close she came to losing the one thing she’s chased since she was 17.

That’s where the shock came in. Maycee Barber says doctors warned her about mono, an enlarged spleen, and a terrifying risk: one clean body s

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