Nate Landwehr is coming into UFC 310 with a heavy heart.
Landwehr (18-5 MMA, 5-3 UFC) takes on Dooho Choi (15-4-1 MMA, 4-3-1 UFC) Dec. 7 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas (ESPN+ pay-per-view, ESPN2, ESPN+).
Landwehr revealed that his wife Robyn recently suffered a miscarriage, a personal tragedy that will play in his mind going into UFC 310.
“It’s just like a fight, man,” Landwehr told Middle Easy. “You’ve just got to keep fighting. We had to go through IVF, so they’ve got to go in, they’ve got to strip my wife’s eggs, and they fertilize them. So we ended up with X amount of embryos that were viable. We had five boy embryos and one girl embryo.
“We tried to put the girl in a little bit ago. She attached, and she just didn’t quite make it. Her name was going to be June Marie. I think about it. All the things that could have been. … You start plotting and planning and then God laughs at you like, ‘I’ve got a plan for you,’ and it just wasn’t meant to be.”
Landwehr is coming off a first-round knockout of Jamall Emmers at UFC on ESPN 54 in March. He was able to rebound from his loss to Dan Ige at UFC 289 – the lone fight he didn’t receive a bonus in from his past five appearances.
Although Landwehr noticed that Choi has been more reserved in his second UFC stint, he plans on bringing out the dog in him.
“You’ve put that in the air,” Landwehr said. “I was expecting that kind of thing when I was fighting Dan Ige, and it didn’t play out. It was a decent fight, but that’s kind of one of my biggest regrets in the UFC since I’ve been there so far. I can accept getting knocked out by Herbert Burns, but it weighs on me.
“It should’ve been kill or killed in that last round (vs. Ige). Every fight I’ve been in has been a bonus except for that fight. I tried to make up for it in my last fight, I was hyper-aggressive, came out swinging, took a little bit more damage. I’m going to try to protect myself this time, but I’m just going to come out guns blazing, swinging, and we’re going to see what happens.”
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