Trevor Peek received’t be preventing anytime quickly attributable to an unlucky accident.
What seemed like a routine coaching session for Peek led to calamity when the fighter suffered a freak leg harm whereas figuring out on the UFC Efficiency Institute in Las Vegas. Peek was scheduled to struggle Jeong Yeong Lee in a featherweight bout at UFC Des Moines on Could 3, however that bout is off now.
Peek revealed his harm in an Instagram submit, which might be seen beneath.
“I truly fractured my leg on the efficiency institute on Friday,” Peek mentioned in a video. “It’s not a foul fracture, I nonetheless need to go get CT scans within the subsequent day or two and determine if I’ve bought any type of ligament harm or something like that.
“I want I had a cool story how I did it, however I bought on some tender mats and was simply bounce roping. I used to be alternating every leg, I’d been bounce roping 20-something minutes, bought a little bit drained, a little bit careless, and wasn’t paying consideration. Come down with all my weight on my left leg and it seemed like a shotgun at any time when it went off, it popped.”
Peek was booked to make his first look of 2025 following an 0-2 2024 marketing campaign. He’s coming off consecutive losses to Yanal Ashmouz and Charlie Campbell, which dropped his UFC file to 1-3.
Had the harm not occurred on firm property, Peek believes he may need been in a position to disguise it and nonetheless make it to struggle evening.
“Sadly, I used to be on the UFC’s premises at any time when I did it, in order that they knew about it,” Peek mentioned. “If there was a method to simply tape this factor and get by and never let anyone know, I actually would have tried my finest to make Could 3 occur. I’ve all the time rolled with the punches and I’ve actually bought in there with some fairly unhealthy accidents and simply my well being not the very best at occasions. This subsequent struggle goes to be actual essential for my profession so possibly it’s best that it labored out that I did it on their premises as a result of they made the chief choice to tug me.”
Peek added he spoke to UFC matchmaker Sean Shelby, they usually hope to discover a spot for him on the upcoming Nashville occasion on July 12. It’s not but recognized if officers will try to discover a new opponent for Lee.
