Former two-division UFC champion recalled the days when he’d have to starve himself ahead of a fight.
Becoming a mixed martial artist is no easy task. Aside from the years of dedication, endless hours of training, and the dietary discipline necessary to succeed, there also comes the task of making weight which often sees fighters significantly cutting down their food intake and dehydrating themselves to the point of exhaustion just before a fight.
Some fighters struggle so severely that they wind up fainting while trying to climb on or off the scale.
Taking away ‘the pleasures of life’ turned the UFC Hall of Famer into a different man
During a recent episode of his Funky and The Champ podcast with Ben Askren, ‘DC’ looked back on some of his more difficult weight cuts and how the lack of food and abstinence from intimacy would make him feel like someone straight out of the Paleolithic era.