“I’ll start off by saying there’s nothing to worry about at this time. My health is great. I feel incredible and I am in peak tip top shape. My weight cut was only about 8 or 9 pounds overall. I dieted as usual for the cut. The weigh-ins were great. I felt good and healthy the whole time here in Oklahoma. Fight day I woke up and ate as usual and again felt fine. I was in the convention center back stage with my corner. All of a sudden I told my trainer Ralph that I wasn’t feeling too good. I told him I’m going to sit down and I took my headphones off. That’s the last thing I remember until waking up on the floor. Apparently my body stiffened up and I lost consciousness. At that point the Oklahoma commission’s doctors came over and asked me a bunch of questions. Next thing I was interview by a few EMTs and the doctors called fight off. I really can’t explain what went wrong. I wound up going to the ER here and the doctor said everything is normal blood, urine, and CT of my head. The only thing abnormal is my blood sugar being high. But that could be from eating so much in the last 24 hrs after the weigh-ins. I was so devastated I couldn’t fight that I broke out in tears. But the fact of the matter is I should take care of this problem and see what’s wrong with me so it will never happen again. My health is my only concern. I know I’ll be back to fight. I’m still looking forward to the fight with Stout. I have to see what’s wrong with me first and I’ll be back on the road for the next one. Thanks for all your support. I’ll keep you all posted.”-Phillipe Nover

The Ultimate Fighter season 8 lightweight runner-up Phillipe Nover gives an status update of his health via his official blog, and he also talks about the health scare that happened last night. He suffered a seizure at last night's UFC Fight Night 19, which forced the cancellation of his preliminary card bout against Sam Stout. Nover says he was 100% fine after the incident and was actually sitting cageside for some time during the event.

This is not the first time Nover lost consciousness in a public setting. He fainted on the debut episode of the Ulitmate Fighter 8, which he said was caused by nerves.

Nover was looking to pick up his first UFC win against Stout. He lost his previous two bouts in the Octagon to Efrain Escudero in his UFC debut at TUF 8 finale, and then against Kyle Bradley at UFC 98 in May.