Despite all the speculation to the contrary, Ray Borg insists that his withdrawal from a flyweight championship bout against Demetrious Johnson at UFC 215 was not weight-cut related.
“You can’t put off the inevitable,” Borg said during a media call to promote UFC 216. “Everyone at my camp was sick, my wife was sick. I was just banking on not catching it, but it happened. There’s not a whole lot you can do.”
The headlining bout was canceled just two days before the Sept. 9 event, forcing the promotion to elevate the women’s bantamweight title clash between Amanda Nunes and Valentina Shevchenko to the main event.