After weeks of speculation, Paulo Costa finally has spoken up about what kept him from a planned UFC on ESPN 3 fight with fellow contender Yoel Romero . According to the Brazilian middleweight, who’s currently in Las Vegas doing performance tests at the UFC Performance Institute, it was an issue involving the New York Athletic State Commission and a simple medicine he’d taken for his stomach. Costa detailed the situation in an interview with Combate.com , “I was called to fight Romero. I signed the contract; he hadn’t signed it,” Costa said. “He’d gone to a reality show, and we were in this indecision of whether he’d be able to fight or not.
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UFC’s Paulo Costa says stomach medicine reason for withdrawal, bothered by PED rumors – MMA Junkie