Kelvin Gastelum and Joe Pyfer didn’t get to combat at UFC Mexico. Now the middleweights attempt it over again with the matchup rebooked for UFC 316 at Prudential Middle in Newark, N.J. on June 7.
A number of individuals with data of the promotion’s plans confirmed the information to MMA Preventing on Monday after Pyfer’s head coach John Marquez first revealed the brand new date on MMA As we speak.
The matchup was beforehand scrapped simply hours earlier than the March 29 occasion with Pyfer falling ailing and unable to compete that evening. Pyfer later unleashed a tirade aimed toward Mexico whereas vowing to by no means combat there once more after he obtained 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 persons 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 advised 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 combat there once more. Shit gap. Not going again.”
Pyfer gained’t have to return to Mexico; as an alternative, he’ll get pleasure from New Jersey as a part of the UFC’s return to the east coast in June.
The upcoming UFC 316 combat card is headlined by males’s bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili operating it again with Sean O’Malley whereas Julianna Peña places her ladies’s bantamweight title up for grabs in opposition to Kayla Harrison within the co-main occasion.
