Paulo Costa is FINE … apart from a couple of mat burns.
“The Eraser” claims the open wound on his foot got here from aggressive coaching — not staph an infection — forward of his UFC 302 pay-per-view (PPV) co-main occasion, the place Costa battles former middleweight champion Sean Strickland.
“I haven’t Staph it’s solely burned pores and skin on the mat,” Costa wrote on Twitter. “I’m okay mtfks.”
UFC 302 goes down tomorrow evening (Sat., June 1, 2024) at Prudential Middle in Newark, New Jersey, with Islam Makhachev defending his light-weight title towards Dustin Poirier within the PPV foremost occasion.
Like Costa, Makhachev additionally confronted accusations of Staph an infection forward of the promotion’s return to “The Backyard State” however as of this writing, there doesn’t look like any trigger for concern, a minimum of when it comes to both bout being in jeopardy.
Makhachev insists he can be “one hundred pc” on combat evening.
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