Kelvin Gastelum and Joe Pyfer didn’t get to struggle at UFC Mexico. Now the middleweights strive it another time with the matchup rebooked for UFC 316 at Prudential Heart in Newark, N.J. on June 7.
A number of folks with information of the promotion’s plans confirmed the information to MMA Combating on Monday after Pyfer’s head coach John Marquez first revealed the brand new date on MMA Today.
The matchup was beforehand scrapped simply hours earlier than the March 29 occasion with Pyfer falling unwell and unable to compete that evening. Pyfer later unleashed a tirade aimed at Mexico whereas vowing to by no means struggle there once more after he acquired sick and it worn out his matchup in opposition to Gastelum.
“I don’t care if it’s offensive to you, I’ll by no means return to that nation,” Pyfer mentioned on his Instagram tales. “I did every part proper: I slept in a tent, I did all this work to nonetheless get sick.
“Some individuals are saying it wasn’t the meals, that I acquired altitude illness. I’m not a f*cking geographic f*cking elevation f*cking scientists, however I used to be instructed so long as I acclimated — which I did for 2 months, slept in a tent on the f*cking ground — I did every part I might to organize. And if that’s what altitude and elevation is, f*ck that nation. I’ll by no means struggle there once more. Shit gap. Not going again.”
Pyfer received’t have to return to Mexico; as an alternative, he’ll take pleasure in New Jersey as a part of the UFC’s return to the east coast in June.
The upcoming UFC 316 struggle card is headlined by males’s bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili working it again with Sean O’Malley whereas Julianna Peña places her girls’s bantamweight title up for grabs in opposition to Kayla Harrison within the co-main occasion.
