Yaroslav Amosov ran through Joel Alvarez this past Saturday in Newark at UFC 328 to improve to 2-0 inside the octagon, and revealed on Monday that this victory came despite a big scare in camp.
The former Bellator welterweight champion shared on social media a video recorded two weeks before the fight, showing his right eye damaged after an injury suffered in camp. He recovered in time for the fight and stopped Alvarez with a bonus-winning second-round submission on May 9.
“There is no perfect camp,”
Amosov said on the video recorded before UFC 328. “Every time I’m in camp something always happens to me, at least once. I don’t know, a minor cut, a minor injury, something that doesn’t stop me. But it just tells me that I need to adjust my schedule a bit and rest a day or two. That’s it, a couple of days ago I thought, ‘Damn, everything’s great, not a single injury.’ I was even scared. I thought, ‘What’s going on?’ Well, weird. Really weird.”
Amosov then removes his sunglasses and reveals the injury.
“Everything’s in its place,” Amosov said. “That’s it. Anything can happen. I’m actually glad that nothing has changed. There has to be something.”
Amosov, now 30-1 as a professional fighter, is now riding a three-fight winning streak since parting ways with Bellator with submission victories against Curtis Millender, Neil Magny and Alvarez.
