UFC APEX – Jun Yong Park gets a second shot at fighting Brad Tavares at UFC Vegas 98 on Saturday night after their first try got scrapped due to staph infection on Park.
“There was a small scar or small scratch on the back of my ear. The physician said that it was staph infection,” Park told reporters through a translator on Wednesday.
“So the fight got canceled unfortunately. Kind of wack.”
Park (17-6) was supposed to fight Tavares in July. The doctor pulled him from the card, but the fight wasn’t rebooked until October. Park reached out to his opponent on social media to explain what happened.
“I talked to him on Instagram. I told him what happened. Sorry and we both cut weight, we were both looking forward to this fight, and unfortunately it didn’t happen. Brad was very understanding of it. He’s like, you know these things happen.”
It wasn’t guaranteed that the Tavares fight would be rebooked, but Park says he would have fought whoever the UFC told him to fight. There really was only one downside to taking the fight.
“Two time(s) cutting weight. F*ck”, Park said in English.
“Two time(s)!”
Watch the entire media day scrum with Jun Yong Park above. He takes on Brad Tavares at UFC Vegas 98 on Saturday night.
