Tag: Ian McCall

Ian McCall has experienced an unprecedented series of holdups in attempting to finally set foot back into the octagon, but thankfully, he won’t be suspended for the most recent one.

A report came today detailing that “Uncle Creepy” will not be suspended for using two bags of IV fluid following his withdrawal from a scheduled bout against Jarred Brooks at February’s UFC 208 from Brooklyn, New York. McCall pulled out of the bout on February 11, the day of the fight, and had been given two bags of intravenous fluids the day before on the recommendations of Dr. Jeff Davidson of the UFC and UFC vice president of athlete health and performance Jeff Novitzky according to MMA Fighting. McCall did successfully make weight for the contest.

Under the new and increased anti-doping policy the UFC has with USADA, IV usage is banned and usually carries a suspension with it, but McCall was granted a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) in a statement from USADA:

“After a thorough investigation of the circumstances surrounding the potential violation, which included the retroactive TUE application process, USADA determined that the athlete had a diagnosed acute medical condition for which the use of an intravenous infusion is consistent with the standard of care. Because McCall’s TUE application was granted retroactively, his use of a prohibited method will not result in an anti-doping policy violation.”

USADA clarified the situation further using its guidelines to note that while IV use is outlawed, fighters may be given them if the situation “has an acute medical condition where an IV line was essential for treatment in a hospital admission, surgical procedure, or clinical investigation,” leading to McCall’s TUE.

The former title contender has seem multiple fights fall apart in recent years due to one reason or another, and last competed back in January 2015 when he lost a decision to John Lineker, who now competes in the 135-pound division. Before the recent downward run, McCall was considered the flyweight to have given now-dominant champion Demetrious Johnson the closest fight in their draw back in March of 2012, albeit before “Mighty Mouse” evolved to the generational status he currently maintains.

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Ian McCall’s troubled path back to the Octagon continues.

Since his last Octagon appearance, a 2015 unanimous decision loss to John Lineker, McCall has had six different match-ups fall through due to various reasons. It looked as though we’d finally see the former flyweight title challenger return to fighting action at UFC 208 when his originally planned opponent, Neil Seery, was replaced by UFC newcomer Jarred Brooks.

The day of the fight, however, McCall was unfortunately pulled from the bout after he fell ill and was hospitalized for gastrointestinal issues. ‘Uncle Creepy’ detailed the whole ordeal leading up to his hospitalization during a recent appearance of Joe Rogan’s podcast The Joe Rogan Experience (quotes via MMA Fighting):

“I’ve never made weight that easy in my entire career. You ask anybody, usually you stop drinking water 24 hours out from weigh-ins. I cut weight Thursday night and it was going so well that I had five glasses of ice water throughout the night. So then I figured I could eat a little bit. So I tried to eat a little bit of salad and I threw that up. But I figured that was just the dressing or something messing my stomach up. So I had at least a cup of almonds, about five cups of water, I cut the rest in the morning and then when I was trying to gain weight back my body wouldn’t. I couldn’t hold on to anything. I kept throwing up everything…

“By the next morning, I had still only gained five pounds. Everything I tried to eat, I threw up. And I was throwing up in front of all the other fighters. Every single chance we ended up having to be in a group in public, I ended up f**king throwing up.”

McCall pleaded with UFC officials and doctors to let him fight regardless of the illness, but they wouldn’t budge. For a moment it looked as though McCall’s life could be on the line and in need of gallbladder surgery. After further evaluation, however, the situation turned out not to be as dire as originally thought:

“I asked them, I’m like. ‘Listen, just let me fight…’ And they looked at me like, ‘No dude, you need to go to the hospital.’ Then they were gonna do emergency gallbladder surgery which they didn’t have to do thank god. This whole thing scared the s**t out of me. When the doctor says, ‘Oh well you could die, you never know,’ I’m like, what the f**k do you mean you never know?”

Doctors first believed that McCall could be suffering from the effects of gall stones, but after more advanced testing that theory was ruled out. Tests are still being run to try and determine what exactly went wrong with McCall, who was finally able to hold food down for the first time since his weight cut just last week:

“[My gallbladder] was super shrunk – contracted. I guess [from the dehydration]. And then they saw shadowing and some other stuff [on the tests] and they thought I had gall stones… Then they did a more advanced version of the ultrasound and they didn’t see anything so they didn’t have to do [surgery]. So basically we’re just running tests, been running tests all week.

“I’m still skinny. I went home a day later than I was supposed to go home and I was still under 135 pounds – 132 pounds. I wasn’t able to hold food down until Tuesday. My body just f**kin’ failed me.”

Do you think we’ll ever see ‘Uncle Creepy’ fight again?

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