Trevor Peek Off UFC Des Moines Card After Jump Rope Injury

Add this one to the list of unusual pre-fight injuries.

Trevor Peek has been forced to withdraw from a proposed featherweight clash against Jeong Yeong Lee at UFC Des Moines after suffering an injury while jumping rope last week. The five-time UFC veteran shared the details in a video on his Instagram account over the weekend.

“I actually fractured my leg at the Performance Institute on Friday. It’s not a bad fracture, I still have to go get CT scans in the next day or two and figure out if I’ve got any kind of ligament damage or anything like that,” Peek said.

“I wish I had a cool story how I did it, but I got on some soft mats and was jump roping. I was alternating each leg. I’d been jump roping 20-something minutes — got a little tired, a little careless, and wasn’t paying attention. Come down with all my weight on my left leg and it sounded like a shotgun whenever it went off, it popped.”

The 30-year-old Alabama native has lost three of his last four promotional appearances and is coming off an 0-2 campaign in 2024. After previously competing at lightweight, Peek was set to drop to 145 pounds for the matchup with Park.

“Unfortunately, I was on the UFC’s premises whenever I did it, so they knew about it,” Peek said. “If there was a way to just tape this thing and get by and not let anybody know, I certainly would have tried my best to make May 3 happen. I’ve always rolled with the punches and I’ve certainly got in there with some pretty bad injuries and just my health not the best at times. This next fight of mine is going to be real important for my career, so maybe it is best that it worked out that I did it on their premises because they made the executive decision to pull me.”

UFC Des Moines — also known as UFC on ESPN 67 — takes place on May 3 at the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa, and is headlined by a bantamweight duel pitting Cory Sandhagen against Deiveson Figueiredo. It is currently unknown if Park will remain on the card against a replacement opponent.

Peek added that he spoke with UFC matchmaker Sean Shelby over the weekend and has requested a spot on a rumored card in Nashville this July if there are no complications surrounding the injury.

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