Cain Velasquez has been repeatedly forced out of fights for injuries. It looks like UFC 207 will be no exemption and he won’t be able to appear.
This news was first reported by ESPN saying that the Nevada State Athletic Commission failed to approve him for the fight determining after a physical that he was unfit to compete.
The decision to cancel the fight might be related to the interview he recently gave detailing how he uses Cannabidiol to deal with the pain related to his back injury.
“It’s an achy pain that goes down your leg, and it gets to a point where if you’re standing for 10 minutes, you have to sit down. If you’re going out for a while, a half-hour, you know it’s going to be pretty painful. You have to sit down and take the compression off your back.
“The surgery is basically shaving off some bone to make room for my sciatic nerve. After the last surgery, the doctor said I might be pain-free forever, but knowing how I train and what I do as a fighter, the pain could come back. I didn’t really know how long I was going to feel good. It ended up being about a year.”
Velasquez added it’s superior to other forms of painkillers because it’s not addictive:
“It’s the only thing that allows me to still train, and I’m not taking a harmful painkiller into my body that I’ll later become addicted to. I don’t know how everyone is going to feel about me saying this, but this is just one of the hard facts we as fighters have to go through. In the past, in the NFL, players have gotten addicted to painkillers. I don’t want to be an addict of some sort.”
