Add this one to the list of unusual pre-fight injuries.
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Trevor
Peek has been forced to withdraw from a proposed featherweight
clash against Jeong Yeong
Lee at
UFC Des Moines after suffering an injury while jumping rope
last week. The five-time
UFC veteran shared the details in a video on his Instagram
account over the weekend.
“I actually fractured my leg at the Performance Institute on
Friday. It’s not a bad fracture, I still have to go get CT scans in
the next day or two and figure out if I’ve got any kind of ligament
damage or anything like that,” Peek said.
“I wish I had a cool story how I did it, but I got on some soft
mats and was jump roping. I was alternating each leg. I’d been jump
roping 20-something minutes — got a little tired, a little
careless, and wasn’t paying attention. Come down with all my weight
on my left leg and it sounded like a shotgun whenever it went off,
it popped.”
The 30-year-old Alabama native has lost three of his last four
promotional appearances and is coming off an 0-2 campaign in 2024.
After previously competing at lightweight, Peek was set to drop to
145 pounds for the matchup with Park.
“Unfortunately, I was on the UFC’s premises whenever I did it, so
they knew about it,” Peek said. “If there was a way to just tape
this thing and get by and not let anybody know, I certainly would
have tried my best to make May 3 happen. I’ve always rolled with
the punches and I’ve certainly got in there with some pretty bad
injuries and just my health not the best at times. This next fight
of mine is going to be real important for my career, so maybe it is
best that it worked out that I did it on their premises because
they made the executive decision to pull me.”
UFC Des Moines — also known as UFC on ESPN 67 — takes place on May
3 at the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa, and is headlined by
a bantamweight duel pitting Cory
Sandhagen against Deiveson
Figueiredo. It is currently unknown if Park will remain on the
card against a replacement opponent.
Peek added that he spoke with UFC matchmaker Sean Shelby over the
weekend and has requested a spot on a rumored card in Nashville
this July if there are no complications surrounding the injury.