Former undisputed welterweight title challenger, Stephen Thompson has revealed his trick to his sizeable lower to 170lbs over current years, which features a huge water load throughout combat week earlier than hitting the scales on Friday morning.
Thompson, a former two-time welterweight championship chaser and perennial contender within the division, has solely competed on the weight class throughout his prolonged Octagon tenure.
And failing to ever miss weight throughout his run with the Dana White-led promotion, Simpsonville striker, Thompson not too long ago revealed a eager water loading secret which aids his sizeable cuts to the restrict throughout an look on the JAXXON Podcast.
“The week of the fight, on the Sunday before fight week, my goal was to drink three gallons,” Stephen Thompson revealed. “So that you simply saturate your physique, then lower half a gallon every day main as much as the burden lower.
“Of course, you have to take your vitamins, minerals, and magnesium because you flush those out,” Stephen Thompson continued. “We’ve had fighters experience severe body cramps for hours. You have to manage that properly.To be honest, I have a nutritionist who comes in to help.”
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Stephen Thompson targets UFC return in the summertime
Most not too long ago that includes at UFC 307 final October, Thompson can be completed with strikes for simply the second time in his skilled profession, dropping a rallying knockout loss to surging challenger, Joaquin Buckley at altitude in Salt Lake Metropolis.
And but to be booked for his return, the previous title challenger welcomed the possibility to tackle the soon-to-return former light-weight title challenger, Donald Cerrone in a showdown this summer time.
“So maybe I’m thinking April-May time [for a return to the UFC], I think would be cool just because I’m a huge fan of (Donald) Cerrone and he comes from that old school era that I kind of came from almost 13-14 years ago, so it’s cool that he wants to jump back out there,” Stephen Thompson mentioned on the Overdogs Podcast.
“I thought it would be awesome if he doesn’t want to cut the weight to 155, maybe to make that fight at 170, I thought it would be really cool to have two veterans like that step back out there and face off against each other,” Stephen Thompson defined. “But nothing booked yet, but that’s what I’m kind of shooting for, that April-May time.”
