A little fight week sushi might have done more damage to Alistair Overeem than Mark Hunt did.
Overeem explained his plight with food poisoning last week in an interview with Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. In the 36 hours before fighting Hunt at UFC 209 on Saturday in Las Vegas, Overeem said he was hospitalized not once, but twice.
“I was dizzy in the head, I was nauseous, extremely low energy,” Overeem said of his condition Friday. “I had a hard time coming out of the bed.