Paulo Costa still hasn’t recovered from Covid-19 and he is out from the fight against Robert Whittaker
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Paulo “The Eraser” Costa was booked to face “The Reaper” Robert Whittaker, in a number one contender fight for the middleweight division.
But Costa has pulled out from the fight because of Covid complications, Costa lost his title fight against the champion Israel Adesanya and he is looking for his rematch ever since, and this was his chance and now he’s lost it as well.
His team released the following statement, “We just want to postpone [the fight] a week or two so ‘Borrachinha’ can recover,” Carlos Costa told MMA Fighting on Tuesday. “He had COVID and then had the flu, and the flu is taking a long time to go away. We just want to postpone [the fight].”
According to Carlos, the former UFC middleweight title contender tested positive for COVID-19 “a month ago,” as well as his girlfriend and mother. Carlos and his wife were also infected by the virus, he said.
“[Paulo’s] symptoms were moderate,” Carlos said. “But there’s an issue: He never stopped training. He continued training. He hasn’t fully recovered since then.
“He had sore throat, and then a huge secretion in the chest. His physical conditioning dropped a little bit, and then a few weeks ago he had this severe flu. We’ll get [a] chest X-ray and other exams done to see if COVID has affected anything.”
Kelvin Gastelum replaced Paulo Costa in the match against Robert Whittaker
With Costa out the former interim champion, Kelvin Gastelum has now stepped in to face the former champion Robert Whittaker, and if he can beat Whittaker then we might see one of the biggest rematch fans have long asked for.
We all saw the war between Gastelum and Adesanya and nobody in the middleweight division has inflicted as much damage on his since his fight against Gastelum.
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