Maycee Barber of the UFC says more necessary tests after a medical event

The UFC Flyweight Maycee Barber was about 30 minutes from walking to the octagon on Saturday before a “medical emergency” finally fired it from the fight.

Barber (14-2) was to face Erin Blanchfield (13-2) during the main event of the UFC Fight Night at the Apex in Las Vegas. Barber, fly weight n ° 4, told ESPN on Tuesday that a medical complication in his locker rooms during the heatingrs led the commissioners to cancel the competition of 125 pounds.

Due to the moment of the emergency and the hairdresser shooting process, the official cancellation of the combat only took place after the UFC had already executed a video package and the fans expected Barber’s ranging music. Blanchfield told media members on Saturday that she said that Barber had suffered a crisis. Barber said it was not yet determined.

“We are not completely sure [what happened]”Barber told Espn.” There was an event that occurred in the back when I warned, and the doctor, the commissioners, everyone saw it. The commissioners asked if I was going well. I said I was, and they didn’t think I was.

“It seemed that my autonomous nervous system could have had a problem, it looked like a” pseudo-seizure “, that’s what I was told, but I have no response. We have to perform more tests.”

Barber, 27, said that she felt good on Saturday before the complication. She missed the weight of half a pound the day before the fight, but Barber said that it looked like a normal cut and that there was no obvious sign of medical problems during or after the cut. She was hospitalized on Saturday evening and was released on Monday.

Barber was also hospitalized in 2024 for medical problems which she since said that doctors still did not understand completely. She is on a sequence of victories of six fights but has not fought since March 2024. She was forced to withdraw from a fight previously planned against Rose Namajunas in July 2024.

Barber said the UFC had already been active to connect it with a variety of specialists. There is no calendar for its return, since the real problem must still be identified. Barber said she was grateful to be alive, despite the obvious frustration of the situation.

“I see people commenting:” Oh, I’m glad it happened to him and not to someone who is relevant “, and I think it’s quite heartless,” said Barber. “I would only like anyone. I would only like this situation, this stranger, on no one. I have been at the UFC for eight years, and I have been a professional in my entire career. I have always given him everything I have.

“To be a young girl was my dream. It was never part of my dream to get there to fight at night and not go out – to disappoint so many people and myself, it’s difficult.”