Adam
Piccolotti has been suspended by the Affiliation of Boxing
Commissions after posting a weight-cutting video that was deemed
“unneccesarily harmful,” in keeping with a report from
MMAjunkie.com.
Piccolotti defeated Georgi
Karakhanyan by way of unanimous resolution at
Bellator 274 in a featured light-weight conflict on the Mohegan Solar
Enviornment in Uncasville, Conn., this previous Saturday. Later, Piccolotti
posted a video on social media — that has since been deleted — of
himself crawling out of a transportable sauna and vomiting on a towel.
Piccolotti added within the publish that he continued to throw up “20-plus
instances all through the night time.”
Because of that publish, ABC president Mike Mazzulli revealed that
Piccolotti has been suspended from 4 to 6 months and should
obtain clearance from a nephrologist, a physician who treats
circumstances involving the kidneys, earlier than he can return to lively
competitors.
“I reviewed the video and decided the method was unnecessarily
harmful,” Mazzulli instructed MMAjunkie. “We’re at all times involved for
fighter security and weight chopping. Hopefully this might be a
studying expertise (for Piccolotti). Fortuitously, he didn’t
die.”
Piccolotti’s cornermen had been additionally suspended from 4 to 6 months
by the Mohegan Division of Athletic Regulation, in keeping with the
report. The fighter’s victory, nonetheless, will stand.
