Preparing for a postponed fight can be really tasking, as Chris
Gutierrez recently found out.

Gutierrez was originally scheduled to fight John
Castaneda at UFC 313
on March 8 in Las Vegas. However, Castaneda was forced out due to
an illness just hours before the fight. The fight has now been
rescheduled for UFC
Kansas City — also known as UFC on ESPN 66 — which goes down at
the T-Mobile Center on April 26.

Having been in camp longer than planned, Gutierrez has had to
overcome certain problems. “El Guapo”
revealed that at one point it felt like nothing was working out for
him despite giving everything in training. However, Gutierrez and
his team identified the issue early, which they think was
overtraining. The featherweight veteran took a few days off which
helped him recover, and he is now ready for Castaneda.

“I’ve been in camp for like 21 weeks, still got three more left,”
Gutierrez told Home of Fight. “It’s been a long camp. I think this
camp was one of the camps where I was like, ‘Man I’m not feeling
good. Nothing’s firing.’ I think it was a little bit of
overtraining, but we caught it early… It’s scary because you’re
doing everything correct but nothing is working… So taking some
time off, taking two or three days off, really using that downtime
to just recover, not even thinking about fighting. I’m glad we
caught it early. But yeah overtraining is a real thing.”

Gutierrez is coming off a unanimous decision win over Quang Le and
is 2-2 in his last four UFC outings. Meanwhile, Castaneda has also
dropped two of his last four and comes off a unanimous decision
loss against Daniel
Marcos.

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