Kevin Holland admits his UFC 307 loss stings – actually and figuratively.
Shortly after his TKO defeat resulting from harm, Holland (26-12 MMA, 13-9 UFC) posted a brief assertion on Instagram with a screenshot of a crucial and insulting direct message he acquired from one viewer of the combat.
“Can’t have a response to everybody however yeah I really feel like a complete piece of sh*t,” Holland wrote. “My unhealthy to all of the one [sic] who put some bread on the road or advised they buddy I used to be gonna win. Ima p*ssy.”
Holland suffered what gave the impression to be a rib harm late in Spherical 1 whereas he was grappling in his major card bout vs. Roman Dolidze (14-3 MMA, 8-3 UFC). Holland made it to the tip of the spherical however clutched his facet as he rose to his toes.
In the end, Holland’s coach Bob Perez decided his fighter was not in adequate sufficient bodily situation to proceed and signaled to the referee the combat must be referred to as off.
“We took the L final night time,” Perez wrote on Instagram on Sunday. “Rib harm whereas escaping. Couldn’t proceed. I referred to as the combat. It sucks, however was the appropriate factor to do. Thanks for the love.”
The extent of the harm just isn’t publicly recognized, although Holland nonetheless gave the impression to be in extreme ache in a post-fight video of him squashing beef with rival Joaquin Buckley.
Saturday was not the primary time Holland was rendered unable to proceed throughout a combat, in response to Perez’s evaluation. In December 2022, Holland severely broke his hand in a combat vs. Stephen Thompson, which lead Perez to make the identical name.
“I’ve had fighters say, ‘Coach, I’ll kill you in case you ever cease a combat.’ I’m like, ‘Effectively, you’re going to need to kill me,’” Perez advised MMA Junkie within the days after the Thompson combat in December 2022. “… My level that I’m attending to is I’d somewhat have Kevin mad at me for a bit, than him hating me for the remainder of his life or his household hating me. God forbid one thing horrible, horrible, horrible had been to occur, I wouldn’t need to hate myself.”
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