According to the coach and brother of Paulo Costa, Carlos Costa, the Brazilian boxer had a positive result with Covid-19 a month ago. It is worth noting that “Borrachinha” constantly practiced after receiving the diagnosis of Covid-19, which made the disease worse.
As a result, Paulo Costa lost the opportunity to lead UFC Fight Night with Robert Whittaker in the middle of April.
“We just want to postpone the match one or two weeks to 'Borrachinha' can recover,” Carlos Costa said.
“Paulo is positive for Covid, but then he has the flu, and the flu will seem to take a long time to avoid it. We just want to postpone the match.”
“Paulo's symptoms are average,” Carlos said. “But there is a problem: He never stopped practicing. Paulo kept practicing. He has not recovered completely since then,” Carlos added.
“He has a sore throat, and then his chest pain. Paulo's physical body drops a bit, and later a few weeks ago Paulo had this serious flu. We would take a thorough X-ray and check it thoroughly to see if Covid had any effect.”
If readers recall, one of the things that makes UFC President Dana White be bored with Khamzat Chimaev is that he refuses to stop practicing after being prescribed by doctors to treat complications after Covid. “Borz” suffered from the end of 2020 and has not yet been able to recover, leading to many cancellation of the match scheduled with Leon Edwards.
Paulo Costa is likely to follow this traces if he is not seriously treated.