Burns suffered some serious damage in his loss against Michael
Morales.
Burns suffered a first-round knockout loss against Morales in May
last year. While Burns’s head was swollen from the impact, it went
down within a couple of days. “Durinho” was briefly doing fine
until he boarded a flight to Las Vegas during the International
Fight Week at the end of June. Burns has terrible headache during
the flight and decided to rush to the UFC Performance Institute
once he landed. Tests revealed that Burns still had a concussion
from his loss against Morales. The former welterweight title
challenger had to go through another month of recovery routine
before he returned to training.
‘My Head Was Exploding’
“The Michael
Morales fight was the weird one, because I fell,” Burns told
MMAjunkie.com. “I wasn’t out, but I fell and
[my head] got swollen very big, next day bigger. And then the
swelling went off and I was good for a week or so… And then, I
think it was International Fight Week, and I got a flight to Vegas.
On that flight to Vegas, it kind of came back. My head was
exploding when I got there. It was sunny and I went to the PI, did
a bunch of tests, still had a concussion. Felt nauseous, throwing
up, and then we had to readjust all the protocol again. Started
doing hyperbaric chambers, going to the diet supplementation again.
After that it was a month and a half and I was back in
training.”
Burns’ (22-9) loss against Morales was his fourth straight in a
row. The Brazilian is now scheduled to face an up-and-coming Mike
Mallott (13-2) in enemy territory at UFC
Winnipeg on April 18 at the Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada.