So he suffers a personal tragedy but has to explain to his own wife that he can't be by her side during likely the hardest moment of her life because he has to fight and doesn't want to let down the fans and he's been training hard for 4 months.

Bit of a slap in his Wife's face that he was willing to abandon her, but was quick to pullout for his uncle's brother.

Of course he hadn't sized up Ustinov in the flesh when he abandoned his wife...