Paulo Costa has not fully recovered from COVID-19 after continuing to train whilst having the virus.
Costa’s brother and coach, Carlos Costa, revealed details of his experience with COVID when speaking to MMA Fighting. ‘Borrachinha’ was forced to pull-out of his April 17 fight with Robert Whittaker earlier this week, due to a “severe flu.”
“We just want to postpone [the fight] a week or two so ‘Borrachinha’ can recover,” Carlos said. “He had COVID and then had the flu, and the flu is taking a long time to go away. We just want to postpone [the fight].