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The Weekly Grind: Israel Adesanya feeds tiger, Conor McGregor shaves beard

The life of a professional fighter isn’t all glitz and glamour.

As if getting punched, kicked, kneed, choked and twisted into a pretzel on a regular basis isn’t enough, fighters attract a general wackiness that makes their lives, well...interesting.

To commemorate these day-to-day hardships, slip-ups, pranks, and more, we bring you, “The Weekly Grind.”

u2728 Hanging out at Sheik @mohdbinrashed ‘s palace is something almost indescribable. Experiences in life like these really shape you as a person, to hang with these powerful animals who could fuck me up on sight but I get to feed them and learn about their lives and upbringing at the palace.