Stefan Struve was supposed to make his return to the Octagon this past Saturday against Matt Mitrione, however just several fights before his, he experienced a fainting spell and was deemed unable to compete.
Struve has been out of competition for quite some time after it was discovered that he has a leaky aortic valve, which causes blood to leak back into his heart.
Struve took to Twitter to tell his fans that he is okay, and has some things to figure out before he’s ready to step into the cage again.
Just want to let everybody know I'm ok, had a blackout in the locker room and we had to call the fight off, thanks for the love folks!
— Stefan Struve (@StefanStruve) July 6, 2014
Drove back to LA today and tho the traffic SUCKED I'm feeling good and phisically I'm 100% Thanks again for the love, much appreciated!
— Stefan Struve (@StefanStruve) July 7, 2014
I want to thank @ufc, @danawhite and @lorenzofertitta for their ungoing support and confidence in me. They even paid me show + win bonus
— Stefan Struve (@StefanStruve) July 7, 2014
My team and I are already figuring out what happened and we have the pieces but just need to do the puzzle. Confident we will sort this out
— Stefan Struve (@StefanStruve) July 7, 2014
What happened had nothing to do with my heart. But everything that has happened left mental scare that I really underestimated.
— Stefan Struve (@StefanStruve) July 7, 2014
Among with another important thing that we are looking at this caused what happened last weekend.
— Stefan Struve (@StefanStruve) July 7, 2014
Also big thanks 2 my team around me, my friends, family and OF COURSE the fans who always had my back and still do, much love from my side!!
— Stefan Struve (@StefanStruve) July 7, 2014
Need to figure some stuff out to make sure it won't happen again.. "@GodofPurp: @StefanStruve when are we going to see you back big homie?”
— Stefan Struve (@StefanStruve) July 8, 2014