A shoulder injury has forced Doo Ho Choi
to pull out of a proposed clash with Danny
Chavez at
UFC on ESPN 28.
“The Korean Superboy” announced his exit from the card in a post on
his Instagram account on Sunday.
“First of all, I’m so sorry for the fans who are waiting for my
fight because I couldn’t have a fight due to injury. I’m in a fight
business. That means an unexpected accident can happen at any time
and I also think a fighter should take the fight even if he has a
some injury because that is way it is,” Choi wrote. I injured my
shoulder in the last sparring session on Friday night. It was very
light and easy rolling but something bad unlucky thing
happened.
“It is not a huge injury, but definitely it isn’t something that
can handle the fight. If I had more time for recover, I would push
forward and take the fight, but our camp [inevitably] decided that
two weeks were just too shorts to recover.
“I’m so sad that I prepared for this fight very hard and I
apologize [to] Danny because he must have prepared so hard for this
battle as well. I’ll be back in good condition soon, I really want
to fight Danny when I get back show my best performance for the
fans. Wait till I come back it will not be long.”
UFC on ESPN 28 takes place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas on July 31
and is headlined by a middleweight tilt pitting Uriah Hall
against Sean
Strickland. It is unclear if Chavez will remain on the card
against a replacement opponent.
The 30-year-old Choi began his promotional tenure with three
consecutive first-round finishes. Since then, however, the Busan
Team Mad representative has lost a decision to Cub Swanson
and fallen to Jeremy
Stephens and Charles
Jourdain via technical knockout. He hasn’t competed since
losing to Jourdain at UFC Fight Night 165 in December 2019. Choi is
14-4 as a professional overall, with 11 wins coming via KO or
TKO.