Junior dos Santos will fight Curtis Blaydes in the main event of UFC Raleigh, but his most recent fight came in a hospital bed in Rio de Janeiro.
‘Cigano’ was originally scheduled to fight Alexander Volkov at UFC Moscow before being sidelined with a leg infection. It turns out, dos Santos could have faced life-threatening complications had he not immediately rushed to the hospital.
“It was extremely serious,” dos Santos told MMA Fighting. “I spent a week in the hospital thinking that I would get cleared and fight [Volkov], but the doctor came to me and said, ‘You don’t understand how serious this is.