Godofredo Pepey’s return to the Octagon at Saturday night’s UFC on FOX 25 event in Long Island will be his first fight since Sept. 2016, but that would not be the case if it was up to him.
The Brazilian featherweight was scheduled to take on Kyle Bochniak at March’s UFC show in Fortaleza, Brazil, but ended up removed the card days before the bout with a broken orbital bone.
"I was punched in training and didn’t even feel the fracture,” Pepey told MMA Fighting, revealing that the Brazilian MMA Athletic Commission (CABMMA) pulled the plug on the fight.