Paulo Filho resurfaces, explains Dream absence

November 9, 1:13 PMPittsburgh Fight Sports ExaminerScott Heritage

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Paulo Filho has at last reappeared to explain his no show at Dream 12 where he was scheduled to fight Dong Sik Yoon. Speculation from most sources indicated that his recent battles with depression and substance abuse may have had a role to play in his absence, but apparently the problem was a visa and timing issue.

“My managers must be in a mess. Joinha and Ed (Soares) work with a lot of athletes as Lyoto, Cigano, Minotauro, Anderson, so they are warning me a few time before. I even wanted to talk to them, because I need at let a month and a half to prepare myself. Things have to be right with me. The other time I had to lose almost 22 pounds, I wanted to come there with 181 pound and lose the rest there“, said the former WEC champion, who doesn’t know if he will fight again this year. “I still don’t know when I’ll fight again, but I’m with 205 pounds. I’m taking time to heal some injuries that I have on the backbone, on the foot and on the thoe, but I’m working the technical part, watching some fights, looking where the athletes are making mistakes a looking at the news“.

Japanese organizations have been notoious int he past for not giving athletes much notice of who or when they are fighting, which has lead to  a lof of visa issues in the past. Whether this is a cover for other issues will have to remain a mystery for now, but it is certainly strange it has taken Filho this long to come up with an answer for his fans.

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