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Brandon Royval was forced to leave his planned fight with Manel Kape due to a pair of concussion.
Royval was to face Kape during the main UFC VEGAS 102 event at UFC Apex on March 1. However, Royval recently announced that he was withdrawing from the competition and now we know why. In A video published in his YouTube channelRoyval revealed that a pair of concussion upset his training, leading him to withdraw from the fight.
“First and foremost, I fought so many times,” said Royval. “I fought with broken hands, torn labroms, torn MCLs, all that, and for much less money and not as significant of events. Withdrawing from a main event for first place was definitely a difficult decision to make.
“Maybe a few months ago, I had a concussion. Nothing too crazy; I was playing just safely, playing intelligently. A few weeks later, when I recovered, I accepted this fight, which was great. (I wanted) Fight Manel Kape. I respect his skills, I respect him as an attacker and all that. I trained hard for this fight, and being a little reckless and being a little in the area for the camp, I had another concussion. He was seriously worse. It’s been more than a week at this stage, and I am still struggling with the repercussions and symptoms of a bad concussion. And for this reason and for the reasoning of the addition of a weight cup, Manel Kape being a good attacker, and it is a striking predominance match that we estimated that it would be the safest movement. Take time, collect, collect the right way this time and fight on a later date. Fight when I can train completely, punch and give you the best of my abilities.
“I’m sorry a million times, but I feel like it’s the best thing for my versatile health. I have played with a lot of injuries in my life, but you really get only one brain, and brain cells do not heal. It all played for why I thought it was the best movement. »»
Royval has currently been on a sequence of victories in two games since its end in its hand -weight title offer against Alexandre Pantoja at the UFC 296, winning shared decisions on Brandon Moreno and Tatsuro Taira in 2024. Although nothing has Was official, the fight against Kape was to serve as a candidate n ° 1, and Pantoja is not currently in a place to prepare properly for such a big fight, especially given the way he fights.
“Currently, the training has been really minimum – to cycle and have symptoms of concussion of appearance after that,” said Pantoja. “It’s not yet like a week, and they are consecutive strokes. This is the first time in years that I have been a concussion, but having them back to back has definitely questioned when I want to start punching or forming it again or all because of the accidents that occur. …
“I can’t wait to come back there and prove my skills. I’m certainly not finished fighting, but it’s something that can certainly affect the long terms of my fights if I don’t treat it properly, and I want more fights. I want to fight the best fights. I am an exciting fighter. That being said, being an exciting fighter, you put yourself in danger, so I must be really careful about the way I enter into some of these fights, especially with regard to the brain. I hope I’m back soon.
In his place, the prospect of weighing steep fly asu Almabayev intervened to face Kape in the main event. Almabayev is currently the competitor of fly weight n ° 8 in the UFC ranking and has a global record of 21-2, going a perfect 4-0 inside the UFC.
