Joe Pyfer vs. Kelvin Gastelum has acquired a brand new date.
The middleweight conflict was initially scheduled to go down in Mexico Metropolis on March 29. Sadly, the struggle was a last-minute scratch after Pyfer grew to become unwell. Little greater than every week later, we now know that their struggle has been rescheduled for UFC 316 on June 7 when the promotion heads again to the Prudential Middle in Newark.
Pyfer’s head coach, John Marquez, broke the information throughout an look on MMA At this time.
Joe Pyfer isn’t going again to mexico
Pyfer in the end blamed Mexico for his withdrawal from their beforehand scheduled scrap, blaming the “sh*t-hole” nation for getting him sick with meals poisoning.
“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 obtained 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 flooring — I did every part I may 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.”
For what it’s value, Marquez claimed that Pyfer misplaced 12 kilos throughout his illness.
Gastelum is coming off a unanimous choice victory over Daniel Rodriguez final June. The one-time interim title challenger has received two of his final three contained in the Octagon, together with a win over Chris Curtis in 2023.
Pyfer makes his return to the cage with a stable 4-1 document underneath the UFC banner, together with a vicious 85-second knockout over Marc-André Barriault at UFC 303 final 12 months. Earlier than that, he earned back-to-back first-round KOs over Alen Amedovski and Gerald Meerschaert adopted by a submission victory over Abdul Razak Alhassan.
