Last weekend, when the UFC announced that the scheduled title fight between Robert Whittaker and Kelvin Gastelum would no longer be taking place, the initial reaction many people has was that it must be due to the staph infection Gastelum clearly had. Instead it turned out that Whittaker suffered a hernia the day before the fight and had to be rushed into emergency surgery but the question remained, what was wrong with Gastelum?
Well, speaking with the Ariel Helwani MMA Show on Monday, the middleweight contender addressed his skin issues, admitting that he did have staph the week of the fight but saying that the UFC medical team had dealt with it and cleared him to fight.