Khabib Nurmagomedov
Just hours from his interim lightweight title fight weigh-ins with Tony Ferguson at UFC 209, Khabib Nurmagomedov was forced to withdraw due to a traumatic weight cut.
“When I go home the night before weigh-ins, I feel crazy,” Nurmagomedov said on ‘The MMA Hour’ Show. “I’m cutting weight with my team, and I don’t remember how I cut weight. I don’t remember a lot of things, something going wrong.
“I feel so bad. I never feel like this.”
Things went from bad to worse from their for ‘The Eagle’ who began to suffer from liver and stomach pains so severe that he was rushed to hospital in the middle of the night, at which point doctor’s immediately ruled out the possibility of him fighting.
“I feel I almost died,” Nurmagomedov admitted and it seems the experts agreed.
“The doctor say, ‘you cannot fight. You almost die. How you fight? How you can fight if you almost die?”
