Quemuel Ottoni has opened up on why he didn’t combat Kody Steele at Tuesday’s Dana White’s Contender Sequence in Las Vegas.
Ottoni was anticipated to co-headline the cardboard reverse Steele at UFC APEX, however information broke minutes earlier than the combat that the Brazilian light-weight had withdrawn from the combat as a result of private causes.
UFC CEO Dana White stated on the printed that “typically you don’t have to really get within the cage to appreciate, ‘This isn’t for me. I can’t deal with the stress. I don’t need to do that.’ That is what that is all about.” White introduced that Steele will obtain one other alternative on a future DWCS card.
Ottoni deleted a lot of the DWCS-related posts he had made throughout combat week from his Instagram web page, and posted a video on Wednesday to deal with the scenario.
“I ended up not preventing yesterday after actually having an nervousness disaster, adrenaline, freezing a bit after seeing all that,” Ottoni stated in Portuguese. “Watching it from the opposite facet of the display screen is one factor, however being there and seeing the cameras, automobiles, and even individuals you … There’s no excuse for what occurred. I made weight. It was a battle to realize again the burden, I felt sick on the way in which again [up in weight], however even that isn’t an excuse. I gained 8 kg. [17.6 pounds] with extreme abdomen ache, however that’s not why I didn’t combat. It was a mixture of every part, the nervousness, seeing the digital camera, seeing the cutman doing my fingers, individuals I’ve seen essentially the most, and that’s it.”
Ottoni, 12-3 as an expert and a one-time Jungle Struggle welterweight champion who gave Alex Pereira his first loss ever in MMA, has now had 4 cancelled fights in a row, together with three deliberate PFL matches. Ottoni has not fought since Could of 2022.
