Renan Barao ’s failure to make it to the UFC 177 weigh-in on Friday not only cost him a shot at regaining the UFC bantamweight belt this weekend, he also won’t be allowed to step right back into a title fight once he is healthy again either. UFC president Dana White told reporters in a scrum immediately following Friday’s weigh-in that Barao would not get a title shot upon returning from the issues that forced him out of Saturday’s fight in Sacramento, Calif. By all accounts, Barao was in his hotel room Friday morning, sitting in a warm bathtub as part of his weight cutting process. He got up out of the bathtub feeling dizzy. A report by MMAFighting.com citing a press release from his camp notes that Barao fell and hit his head against the wall upon getting out of the bathtub, while a Globo.com report, citing sources within Barao’s camp, said that he did not hit his head.
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