Kelvin Gastelum Out of Shavkat Rakhmonov Clash Booked for UFC Fight Night 227
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— #OnAmission4Gold (@KelvinGastelum) August 1, 2023
Unfortunately I received an injury and my fight with Shavkat Rakhmonov off/delayed
Full video on my YouTube channel. pic.twitter.com/NXxvHjU54U
Sept. 16’s UFC Fight Night 227 Las Vegas card lost one of its protagonists after Kelvin Gastelum suffered an injury in training.
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“Unfortunate news, my fight with Shavkat Rakhmonov is off. I received an elbow that resulted in an open fracture and a few bones came out fractured. I have to apologize to everybody who was excited about this fight. I apologize to everybody. I apologize to Rakhmonov and his team. I feel bad. I feel very horrible about this unfortunate incident. I’ll be back. I’m still going to continue training. I can still do my strength and conditioning training, movement, I can still do a lot of my training... I asked to move it up to November. Hopefully they will grant me this wish. That will be Nov. 11 in Madison Square Garden. It’s hard to be a Kelvin Gastelum fan sometimes, I know. We go through ups and downs together, but I promise we’re fighting to get back on the horse and get back on that winning streak and continue it.”
Pinata, I agreed to fight you on your territory on Mexican Independence Day in arena full of your supporters and it’s not my problem you can’t do it now. It’s your turn to accept to fight me on my territory in Abu Dhabi at UFC 294! Or did you realize it was bad idea just now? https://t.co/Q8HYG5d9XC
— Shavkat “Nomad” Rakhmonov (@Rakhmonov1994) August 1, 2023
It didn’t take long for Rakhmonov (17-0, 5-0 UFC) to reply to his fellow Ultimate Fighting Championship colleague. “Nomad” asked the fight to be rescheduled on the UFC 294 card in Abu Dhabi, implying Gastelum was dodging him. The former M-1 Global champion is coming off a submission victory over Geoff Neal at UFC 285.
“Pinata, I agreed to fight you on your territory on Mexican Independence Day in arena full of your supporters and it’s not my problem you can’t do it now. It’s your turn to accept to fight me on my territory in Abu Dhabi at UFC 294! Or did you realize it was bad idea just now?”
UFC Fight Night 227 is set to go down at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The headliner will pit Alexa Grasso against former divisional queen Valentina Shevchenko for a rematch with the women’s flyweight championship on the line.
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