Apr 27, 2013; Newark, NJ, USA; Phil Davis (red shorts) competes against Vinny Magalhaes (black shorts) during UFC 159 at the Prudential Center. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports

If you were looking forward to watching Vinny Magalhaes take on Keenan Cornelius Saturday night at Metamoris 3 in Los Angeles, you learned some bad news after the online pay-per-view had already started.

Magalhaes has apparently been dealing with some illness in the days leading up to the event, and it turns out that he may have MRSA — a dangerous staph infection that plagued the Tampa Bay Buccaneers football team earlier this year.

Magalhaes took to social media just before his bout was set to air to apologize and explain what happened.

He wrote:

On Tuesday night after I got done with all my training sessions, I noticed a tiny little thing under my arm which looked like nothing but an ingrown hair. It didn’t change size or anything throughout the day on Wednesday, I did some pad work in the evening with my Thai coach and everything went fine.

When I got home from the gym, I felt like the area was getting too hot and I was starting to have fever. When it was around 11:00pm i decided to go to the ER, and see if what I had was more than just an ingrown hair. The doctor said that I found out soon enough that there was nothing in it to be drained but said that I had staph infection, and prescribed me some antibiotics.

I got on them right away, and the next day I notified Ralek about the infection, and also told what the doctor had told me. The doctor told me that 24hrs after starting the antibiotics, I should start to see results, and most likely it wouldn’t spread out. Well, keenan contacted me, I told him the situation and he knew the risks and still agreed to the match. Over these last couple days, things just got worse, I had really high fever all night these last couple nights, even though I was on antibiotics, the wound wouldn’t stop getting bigger. So today at around 2 I decided to get a second opinion and the doctor told me that I might have MRSA, since the antibiotics haven’t worked at all and I’m on my third day on them. I’m at the hospital right now, the doctors will give me an IV with antibiotics and drain the area. The Dr. Just walked in and said that this is one of the most painful thing according to her patients… FUUUUU Well, sorry everyone that was rooting for me, and those that bought the event expecting me to be part of it… I tried… I really tried.

He also posted a photo:



Magalhaes also has a bout scheduled in Titan FC in a couple of months, so hopefully he will be able to get back to 100 percent sooner rather than later.

While it would have been great to see Magalhaes’ world class jiu jitsu on display at Metamoris 3, his health is the most important thing and we wish him nothing but a speedy recovery.

Get well soon, Vinny.