“I’ve probably had some issues with my back for the past couple years and I need some time off. This time it hit me in the middle of this training camp. Actually, the night that I signed the fight with Vitor I came in the next day to train, and 10 minutes into the training session I was laying on the floor and I laid on there for an hour with an ice pack. This time it kept me out for three weeks.”
“I went to the doctor’s he took some X-rays. He said, there’s this bone on the bottom of your spine that’s got a fracture on both sides. It looks like it might have been there awhile but you’ve pushed it over the limit. You can rest, get some intensive therapy but you’re probably not going to be able to train for the fight. So I had to make the decision, I took three weeks off, started feeling a little better and I started hitting it hard. At the end of that week my back starting flaring up again.”
“That’s the news I needed to make this decision. If you’re not going to be 100 percent, don’t do it. Don’t fight with injuries, don’t fight out of shape, and never give up. That’s it, that’s the three reasons that I’ll never lose a fight if I can help it. I fought with some injuries before but at this time, at the level that I’m at, it’s not worth it man. I would have only made it worse.”
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