The Italian middleweight was already anxious after having his March fight scrapped when UFC London was cancelled in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic but then two months later he had another matchup fall apart just hours before he was supposed to compete.
Following a tough weight cut that saw him miss the mark on the scale, Karl Roberson was pulled from their fight at UFC Jacksonville after he ended up in the hospital the night before the event. When Vettori ran into him at the host hotel after getting word that their fight was cancelled, he confronted Roberson as a heated war of words erupted with security eventually breaking up the incident.