Add this to the list of weird, recent weight-cutting injuries.
Grant Dawson was supposed to make his RFA debut last Friday night, but was forced to pull out two days before due to burns and an infection he got from sitting in a hot tub to cut weight, he told MMA Fighting.
Dawson said he had to be rushed to the emergency room where doctors told him he had first-degree burns and the onset of hot tub folliculitis, which is essentially an inflammation of the hair follicles. The 21-year-old was not able to cut any more weight since he was in the hospital and his team convinced him that fighting fellow undefeated prospect Clayton Wimer at a catchweight was a bad idea considering his condition.