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Coach Clayton Hires says Uriah Hall is ‘fine’ after weight-cutting ‘mishap,’ move to 205 being discussed

LOS ANGELES — Uriah Hall was supposed to fight Vitor Belfort on UFC St. Louis on Sunday. Instead, Hall ended up in the hospital, the result of a weight cut gone wrong. MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani reported over the weekend that Hall was on weight, but had a seizure on his way to the scale. He was held overnight Saturday.

Hall is back on his feet and doing much better now, according to his coach Clayton Hires.

“He’s fine,” Hires told MMA Fighting on Wednesday. “Mishap, but you know that’s the trials and tribulations of the fight game.