Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) champion at lightweight Russian Islam Makhachev talked about weight loss before defending his title in a duel with Australian Alex Volkanovski.
I even called Khabib after weighing and said, “What do you think, how to do it right?” And he didn’t want to ask himself, because our team has never encountered anything like this.
I usually drank a lot of water after weighing, had lunch, did this workout in the evening, and didn’t eat before then. And then – it was almost 22 hours, the food was wrong, I went to bed. I woke up in the morning and could not decide whether to eat or not, because I had to go to the arena, ”says Makhachev “Match TV”.
On February 12, Makhachev defeated Volkanovski by unanimous decision after five rounds at UFC 284 in Perth, Australia.
This victory for the Russian took the 24th place in his professional career with a loss. He defended his lightweight title for the first time.
On October 22, Makhachev faced Brazil’s Charles Oliveira in the lightweight title fight at the UFC-280 tournament in Abu Dhabi. The Russian fighter won the second round with a suffocating grip.
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