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Vinicius Oliveira had a rough time in the UFC Vegas 113 main event. | Getty/UFC
Vinicius Oliveira took a step up in competition on Saturday, and things didn’t go as planned for the Brazilian prospect.
Oliveira was outclassed in the UFC Vegas 113 main event, as he fell to Mario Bautista via second-round submission at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. That snapped a four-bout promotional winning streak for “LokDog,” who had an opportunity to enter the upper echelon of the bantamweight division with a victory over the battle-tested Bautista.
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In the aftermath of his first UFC, defeat Oliveira revealed that he suffered multiple injuries leading up to the fight.
“Well, earthlings, things went wrong again,” Oliveira wrote on Instagram. “I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve lost in my life, but every time I’ve gotten up and moved on. I’m sad for my team and for everyone who was cheering for me, but anyway, no sad stories, let’s move on to another journey. I did the impossible, I dropped below 84kg again, I had three injuries during this fight camp: a rotator cuff injury, a meniscus injury, and also a fracture in my arm, but I’m still the best, the terror has a name! Yeeeeeeah!”
In a separate interview with Ag.Fight, Oliveira went into more detail regarding the fracture in his arm, which apparently hindered his performance in the Octagon on Saturday.
“I could have canceled the fight,” Oliveira said (translation via MMAFighting.com). “I broke my arm. There wasn’t much I could do, but I decided to move forward. For a good while we trained with my arm in a cast. It was actually a bit reckless on our part. We kept it under wraps, but I was determined to fight regardless of the injury.”
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Bautista grounded Oliveira in the first round, and if it seemed like the Brazilian didn’t make much effort to return to his feet — there was a reason for that.
“I got taken down and couldn’t do the shield to get back up because that was exactly where it hurt,” he added. “I tried, but it hurt too much. I said in between round that it was hurting. We went on through the pain, but it was really bad. I started throwing jabs, but even just the movement of punching air hurt a lot.”
Oliveira revealed that he received a 180-day medical suspension from the Nevada State Athletic Commission. He added that he struggled with his weight cut due to the injury issues.
“It was the worst weight cut of my career because I couldn’t train properly, and that made it harder to lose the weight,” Oliveira said. “I had to train moderately. I couldn’t do cardio because any movement of my arm hurt.”
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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