Barber on last-minute main event pull-out: ‘It looked like a pseudo-seizure’

Maycee Barber is talking out following a literal final minute withdrawal from the primary occasion of final weekend’s UFC Vegas 107 foremost occasion.

Barber was set to battle Erin Blanchfield in a girls’s flyweight battle with title implications, however the battle was cancelled simply as each fighters have been set to make their walks. Blanchfield was advised it was as a result of Barber had a seizure, however in a brand new interview with ESPN, Barber says it’s not fairly that straightforward.

“I hate going again and being like, ‘We’ve got no solutions,’ however we’re not totally positive what occurred,” Barber mentioned. “Clearly, there was a medical emergency. We’re not fairly positive precisely what it was, what it’s … however there was a occasion that occurred within the again once I was warming up and the physician, the commissioners, all people noticed it.”

“The commissioners, they have been asking me if I used to be okay, and I used to be saying that I used to be,” she recounted. After which they didn’t assume that I used to be, and they also saved asking the coaches. The coaches have been like, ‘We’re not fairly positive.’ In order that they ended up all going and getting the docs.”

Barber admits the occasions surrounding the incident have been unclear to her, which tells us one thing fairly critical was happening. She’s been counting on what her staff has advised her.

“They’re like, ‘We had about thirty minutes till you have been gonna stroll and that’s when every little thing kinda began to occur.’” she mentioned. “Like I mentioned, I don’t keep in mind every little thing totally. It’s all actually blurry, to be trustworthy.”

“Subsequent factor I do know, I used to be at the back of an ambulance being transported to the hospital. Then I stayed there, and I used to be doing a bunch of assessments and making an attempt to determine what was happening. It was not the plan.”

The UFC has promised to assist Barber resolve issues with the perfect specialists accessible. For now there are few solutions.

“I used to be advised that it seemed like my autonomic nervous system may need been having a problem,” she mentioned. “They mentioned it seemed like a pseudo-seizure, is what I used to be advised. However there’s no reply. There’s actually no one going like, ‘Oh, yeah. That is precisely what it was.’ It’s simply a whole lot of, ‘We have to run assessments, and we have to get some solutions.’”