Joe Pyfer didn’t find yourself combating at UFC Mexico and maybe it was for the higher.
The middleweight competitor was pressured to withdrawal from a matchup with Kelvin Gastelum this previous March when he was overcome by sickness in Mexico Metropolis. Pyfer and Gastelum have since been re-booked for UFC 316, which takes place subsequent Saturday in Newark, N.J., however his unlucky expertise south of the border nonetheless stings.
“I couldn’t battle like that,” Pyfer stated on The Ariel Helwani Present. “He would have slapped me and I might have shit myself. So yeah, the flight house sucked. Every little thing about that scenario simply sucked. It was like a nightmare, it actually was.”
Within the wake of the bout postponement, Pyfer didn’t mince phrases about how he felt concerning the circumstances in Mexico Metropolis. He went on an offensive tirade on social media, blaming all the nation for his well being issues.
“I don’t care if it’s offensive to you, I’ll by no means return to that nation,” Pyfer stated. “I did every little thing 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 received 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 little thing I might to organize. And if that’s what altitude and elevation is, f*ck that nation.
“I’ll by no means battle there once more. Shit gap. Not going again. Don’t care if that’s offensive to you. You’re not the one combating, Suck my balls, actually.”
Pyfer and his workforce couldn’t pinpoint the precise origin of his sickness, however he’s sure he received’t e book a battle in Mexico once more. Nonetheless, he tried to elucidate that his phrases have been extra out of frustration than any animosity in direction of the occasion’s host nation.
“I don’t have to enter specifics, but when the nation was so nice, we wouldn’t have so many issues,” Pyfer stated. “On the finish of the day, what I stated was misconstrued. I stated if that’s what combating in that nation is then at that place it’s a shit gap after which so on and so forth. I don’t perceive why we’d threat combating there, the danger is so nice. I received sick twice—I didn’t get sick as soon as, I received sick twice—and I by no means stated something about it. … DC went on and stated, ‘Man, my abdomen was tousled. I hate that place.’ No person gave him shit about it. I’m a bit bit extra unapologetic. It’s nothing in direction of the folks, the folks have been fantastic, I’ve nothing to say unhealthy concerning the folks. It’s simply so far as combating there, combating at that elevation, combating at that altitude. Why would I threat that?
“Yeah, I’m salty. I don’t care how that makes different folks really feel as a result of I’m the one which misplaced. Kelvin misplaced. We didn’t get to battle. I misplaced 25 grand going on the market, I’m not a high 10 man making loopy cash but, and a possibility received taken away from me. Sadly, it’s no person’s fault however mine and the truth that I traveled outdoors the nation, which I stated I wouldn’t do. I stand on what I say. I don’t prefer it so far as combating there and I don’t need to retract that assertion. I do know it didn’t make folks pleased, however that is my profession and I’m the one which received bent over on the finish of the day and didn’t get to make any cash or battle.”
Pyfer has since confronted loads of backlash on-line. He claims folks despatched him direct messages wishing him additional unwell, with some even sending loss of life threats.
He seems ahead to receiving a hotter reception in New Jersey when he lastly will get to battle Gastelum and has an opportunity to place the ugly UFC Mexico Metropolis incident behind him.
“Now I’m OK, however actually, the primary three weeks after my abdomen was nonetheless actually tousled,” Pyfer stated. “The worst I’ve ever been sick in my life. Between mainly shitting water out of your ass to vomiting profusely for a few days after which having a fever on high of it. Belief me, if I might have fought, I might have, and I’ve by no means not fought. I fought Jack Hermansson after having pneumonia the entire camp after which I had two staph infections moving into there and I nonetheless fought. So if I can battle, I’ll, and that was simply not a scenario I might battle.
“I wasn’t going to turn into a meme of ‘Poopy Pants Pyfer’ as they name me now.”
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