Paulo Costa has an explanation for his withdrawal from his latest booking.
Late Friday evening, it was reported that Costa will not be fighting Jared Cannonier in a middleweight bout at a UFC event on Aug. 21 and that he would be replaced by Kelvin Gastelum. The reasons for the withdrawal were not disclosed and now Costa is saying that he never actually signed a contract for the bout, which had not been officially announced by the UFC.
Costa took to Twitter shortly after the news broke that his fight was off to give his side of the story.