In the end, American Top Team coach Marcos “Parrumpinha” DaMatta won’t miss all the “Fight Island” cards.
The jiu-jitsu trainer wasn’t able to hop on the first UFC chartered flight that left Las Vegas to Abu Dhabi last week after testing positive for COVID-19. “Parrumpinha” was hoping to test negative in time to be cleared to travel to Abu Dhabi to corner his proteges, and was granted his wish after a recent test result came back negative.
“Everyone sent messages of support, they were worried about me, so I wanted to thank everyone,” DaMatta told MMA Fighting on Friday.