Reinier de Ridder emerged on the eve of a potential UFC middleweight title shot entering UFC Vancouver. After De Ridder was originally set to face Anthony Hernandez before the latter pulled out, Brendan Allen stepped up on relatively short notice to face De Ridder in the UFC Vancouver main event.
Despite De Ridder entering the fight as a modest favorite, Allen pulled off a huge TKO upset after De Ridder’s corner threw in the towel between rounds. De Ridder looked visibly beaten and exhausted in his corner as Allen appeared to drown the top contender.
Since UFC Vancouver, De Ridder has been relatively cagey about what went wrong in the Octagon against Allen. It turns out that De Ridder fought more than just Allen during the fight night.
Reinier de Ridder makes a frightening confession about his health after losing to UFC Vancouver
In a recent interview with Submission radioDe Ridder made a frightening admission about his health weeks away from UFC Vancouver.
“I still feel like…, when I walk up the stairs, I’m out of breath,” de Ridder said.
“There’s a lot of information coming back from the blood work. I don’t want to be too specific because then I won’t get a retake, but there are some physical things that aren’t right, and I’m going to see if I can fix all of that before I come back. It’s something I’ve struggled with in the past, with the [Anatoly Malykhin] fighting, and I thought I had solved it, but apparently not.
“I’m trying my best to figure it all out, get it all together and come up with a good plan to solve this… it’s hard to take time off because I want to get back to it as soon as possible… I’m looking for a new obsession [LAUGHS].”
At the time of writing, a timeline for De Ridder’s return to the Octagon remains uncertain. UFC fans can safely assume that De Ridder likely won’t return to the Octagon until next summer at the earliest.
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