After rough octagon start, Veronica Macedo wants to address health issues before making the walk again

Veronica Macedo’s UFC career has not played out as planned. She continues to struggle with ongoing medical issues.

Macedo (6-4-1 MMA, 1-4 UFC) bounced around from 125 to 135 pounds throughout her five octagon bouts, and chalked up her recent woes to health issues that she hasn’t been addressing.

“The things I’ve had with the weight classes has been more things of medical issues and things that haven’t been resolved, to be honest, at all,” Macedo told MMA Junkie. “And I just think that I need to stop avoiding and stop overlooking and stop pushing them and take it serious and resolve them.

“What I keep doing is, I keep thinking that I can take care of it and I can fix it, and I can’t, and I keep accepting fights when I shouldn’t. So that’s just the first thing that I want to do. I want to – whether the UFC keeps me on the roster or not, whatever my next fight will be – I want to actually be prepared for it, just medically.”

Macedo is coming off a unanimous decision loss to Bea Malecki at UFC on ESPN+ 28 in March. She appeared to be tired throughout the fight.

“It is what it is,” Macedo said of the loss. “There’s not much you can really say. A lot of it was down to lack of cardio – bad performance due to lack of cardio. A lot of things I could have done better, but (I had) no energy, and that played a huge role. I think that’s the biggest part of it. You can have all these ideas and all these things that you think of doing and all this technical stuff, but if your energy is not there, you’re not going to be able to do it.”