Karl Williams paid extra price for building a fence

LAS VEGAS – Apparently Karl Williams would’ve been again to work before Saturday, if not for taking house enhancements into his personal fingers.

Williams (9-1 MMA, 2-0 UFC) meets Justin Tafa (7-3 MMA, 4-3 UFC) within the UFC on ESPN 53 heavyweight co-main occasion on the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Tafa stepped in for his brother, Junior, who needed to pull out of the unique reserving in opposition to Williams with an harm.

Williams himself needed to keep on the shelf after a latest surgical procedure setback led to by his need for do-it-yourself supremacy.

“I had surgical procedure after which restoration, and I used to be attempting to combat in December,” Williams mentioned at Wednesday’s media day. “… I did a number of stuff I wasn’t speculated to do after the surgical procedure. I went and constructed a fence, re-did my toilet, re-did my closet – which ended up making me need to take longer day without work as a result of I ended up re-messing up my surgical procedure due to that.”

Williams mentioned the time on the sidelines began to make him respect what he does for a residing, nearly in basic “don’t know what you’ve bought ’til it’s gone” mode.

“I don’t hate my job, however you desire a trip and also you get on the holiday, it lasts too lengthy and also you’re like, ‘OK, I’m prepared to return house,’” he mentioned.

Now that he’s again to the cage for the primary time since Could 2023, it is likely to be finest to not depend on Williams to get again into house enchancment mode after Saturday.

However then once more, he has that fence factor down.

“I did an excellent fence. If anyone wants a fence constructed, I’ve bought you,” Williams mentioned.

Take a look at Williams’ full media day interview within the video above.

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