‘I Texted UFC On The Toilet’

Curtis Blaydes is opening up on a rough-sounding case of Norovirus that knocked him off UFC 313 again in March.

Blaydes was set to combat new UFC arrival Rizvan Kuniev in a combat that had been pushed again a number of weeks from its authentic date in February. After a number of extra shuffles, “Razor” will now combat Kuniev in Baku, Azerbaijan on June twenty first. Hopefully, he received’t must combat a virus as effectively.

“Yeah, it’s tough,” Blaydes advised Residence of Struggle of his sickness. “I can’t communicate for everybody, however in my very own expertise, it’s about twelve hours of pissing out of your butt. It’s tough. And it’s very dehydrating. It’s not simply the diarrhea. It’s additionally nausea. You’re throwing up. You possibly can’t maintain down even a drop of water. It wasn’t an excellent an excellent expertise.”

“That’s why I needed to name off the combat. I’m not gonna danger my rating and my legacy and all the things I’ve constructed up as a result of I bought a virus the morning of the park. So it was straightforward determination.”

Norovirus or Norovirus-like signs have been hanging down random fighters quite a bit these days. Joe Pyfer additionally made the decision to withdraw from his UFC Mexico Metropolis combat towards Kelvin Gastelum over it. Crazy Godinez went forward along with her combat and practically crapped her pants after spherical two. Requested if he thought-about staying and risking a Crazy, Blaydes stated no.

“I knew instantly throughout the first hour, it was unhealthy. I knew then,” Blaydes stated. “I do know my put up was like, ‘We’ll simply see how it’s in a number of hours.’ It hit me up instantly. It hit me at 2 within the morning. It woke me up out of my sleep, and I texted them whereas I used to be on the bathroom like, ‘Yo, I’m tousled. This isn’t good.’”

“Yeah, we made the choice round 1 within the afternoon. I used to be similar to, ‘There’s no means I’m gonna have the ability to healthily have the ability to bounce again and be me.’ It’s to not say I couldn’t have received, however that is heavyweight. It doesn’t take essentially the most talent to get a fortunate haymaker or a fortunate overhand. It simply wasn’t value it.”

As for preventing a relative unknown and unranked fighter like Rizvan Kuniev in Azerbaijan?

“Cash’s the identical,” Curtis stated merely. “You can provide me an 0-18 man otherwise you can provide me Jon Jones, the cash’s the identical. I don’t care. I don’t care concerning the venue. I’m not into all that. All of the bragging and flashiness? I’m right here to get cash and get out.”

“Once I’m retired, I hope the world forgets about me. I would like my cash, and I need to get outta right here.”