Kevin Holland admits his UFC 307 loss stings – actually and figuratively.
Shortly after his TKO defeat as a consequence of damage, Holland (26-12 MMA, 13-9 UFC) posted a brief assertion on Instagram with a screenshot of a essential and insulting direct message he obtained from one viewer of the battle.
“Can’t have a response to everybody however yeah I really feel like a complete piece of sh*t,” Holland wrote. “My dangerous to all of the one [sic] who put some bread on the road or advised they good friend I used to be gonna win. Ima p*ssy.”
Holland suffered what seemed to be a rib damage late in Spherical 1 whereas he was grappling in his fundamental card bout vs. Roman Dolidze (14-3 MMA, 8-3 UFC). Holland made it to the top of the spherical however clutched his aspect as he rose to his toes.
In the end, Holland’s coach Bob Perez decided his fighter was not in enough sufficient bodily situation to proceed and signaled to the referee the battle needs to be known as off.
“We took the L final evening,” Perez wrote on Instagram on Sunday. “Rib damage whereas escaping. Couldn’t proceed. I known as the battle. It sucks, however was the fitting factor to do. Thanks for the love.”
The extent of the damage shouldn’t be publicly recognized, although Holland nonetheless seemed 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 battle, in response to Perez’s evaluation. In December 2022, Holland severely broke his hand in a battle vs. Stephen Thompson, which lead Perez to make the identical name.
“I’ve had fighters say, ‘Coach, I’ll kill you when you ever cease a battle.’ I’m like, ‘Properly, you’re going to should kill me,’” Perez advised MMA Junkie within the days after the Thompson battle in December 2022. “… My level that I’m attending to is I’d reasonably 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 wish to hate myself.”
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