But after a year-plus plagued by strep throat and illnesses which would come, go, and return worse than before, even he started to have his doubts -- particularly when he dropped two of his three fights in 2016.
“I was a little worried because I would train very hard, I’d been feeling great, and then out of nowhere, I’d get kind of sick, all of a sudden,” Northcutt said on Tuesday’s edition of The MMA Hour. “Of course, as anybody would do who fights, especially a UFC fighter, they would try to train through it, so I would train through it, and then it would just run my body down more and more.