Wellington Turman followed a two-week quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19 earlier this month, but he won’t be able to make it to his UFC Vegas fight with Sean Strickland on Oct. 31, MMA Fighting has confirmed following a report from Combate.
Turman told MMA Fighting he started experiencing the symptoms on Sept. 4 and got tested for the virus five days later. He stayed in quarantine until Sept. 24 after the result came back positive, but couldn’t resume training right away.
“I was in bad shape for two weeks, in really bad shape, with fever and pain to the body and chest, a bit of shortness of breath,” Turman said.