Cody Garbrandt battled extra than simply Deiveson Figueiredo in Las Vegas.
This previous Saturday, Garbrandt fought Figueiredo within the first battle of UFC 300, submitting to a rear-naked choke within the second spherical. The loss snapped a two-fight successful streak for Garbrandt, and in keeping with “No Love,” got here at the very least partially as a consequence of a recurring medical situation he revealed in his first assertion because the occasion.
“I felt nice in my battle, till I began to expertise vertigo I couldn’t management the spinning as soon as it was to the bottom. Hats off to [Deiveson] and his camp! I ended up going to the hospital the place I used to be nonetheless experiencing the vertigo throwing up till 4 a.m. Thanks Heather and Olivia for monitoring me after the battle. I’ll get this corrected, I’ve handled vertigo since 2012. Thanks to the followers that got here out to help. It wasn’t my night time however I really like doing what I do, I’ll be again in there earlier than the yr is up.”
Based on the Nationwide Well being Service, vertigo is “the feeling that you, or the environment around you, is moving or spinning” and may be brought on by numerous medical points like infections or Ménière’s illness, an internal ear situation. In a subsequent put up, Garbrandt stated he went to the Mayo Clinic in 2021 for Ménière’s illness.
Garbrandt had a great first spherical towards Figueiredo, successful the spherical on all three judges’ scorecards. Within the second spherical, Figueiredo went to his grappling recreation and overwhelmed the previous bantamweight champion on the ground en path to the submission victory. And whereas Garbrandt didn’t outright declare the bout of vertigo induced him to lose, whereas responding to messages on Twitter, did recommend it performed an enormous consider his efficiency.
Not a great look to say what occurred to me in a battle by what I used to be experiencing? It’s the reality takin nothing from Davison, you assume I might simply lay on my again not getting up complete time I used to be spinning not attempting to get my face elbowed in and preventing by it. https://t.co/xuE5MHLq4J
— Cody Garbrandt (@Cody_Nolove) April 16, 2024
“Not a great look to say what occurred to me in a battle by what I used to be experiencing? It’s the reality takin nothing from [Deiveson], you assume I might simply lay on my again not getting up complete time I used to be spinning not attempting to get my face elbowed in and preventing by it.”
The loss dropped Garbrandt to 9-6 in his UFC profession and as soon as once more set again his targets to return to the bantamweight title image. In the meantime, Figueiredo jumped to No. 6 within the UFC bantamweight rankings and now finds himself on the cusp of a title shot and an opportunity to turn out to be the tenth two-division champion in UFC historical past.
