SAGE NORTHCUTT EXPLAINS THE QUICK TAP & HIS FIRST PRO LOSS
UFC 19 year old phenom Sage Northcutt lost his first pro fight last Saturday night on UFC FOX 18 on national TV to Bryan Barberena in Newark, NJ. Sage explained the loss today on the MMA Hour that he was sick and did not want to cancel the bout.
“Well, first off, sorry if my voice sounds a little bit funny. I don’t want to make excuses for my poor performance out there, but I actually had strep throat three times in the last four months. And then when I actually got down to New Jersey, I had been on multiple antibiotics. Then in New Jersey, two days before my fight, I had a real bad relapse of the strep throat and I had to go to the emergency clinic, or UFC had to take me. And then, Dr. D with the UFC had to write a prescription for me for more antibiotics and stuff like that. So really, I really couldn’t explain how I felt out there. I felt really horrible. I obviously don’t want to pull out of a fight, that’s not good. I just had a hard time breathing out there. I really wasn’t myself, so that wasn’t the Sage you would normally see out there in the Octagon. Even after the first 30 seconds, a minute out there, I couldn’t breath. I felt like my legs were cement. It just wasn’t me out there. So, I know I’ll be coming back better than ever and I’m still healing up from feeling sick. In a few days I’m going back to the doctor again to try and heal up from all of this.”
About the quick tap.
“It wasn’t panic, I felt very calm. The thing was, having the hard time breathing and having the mouth piece in, my energy level wasn’t the level I would normally have. I fought as a 155’r, weighing 170 is what I weighed when I walked out there actually. That’s what I weigh in at, so I got to eat breakfast before weigh ins. I didn’t have my same strength. When he was on top of me, Having his shoulder on my throat, I know it wasn’t a traditional head-and-arm choke from side control where you can apply the same kind of pressure, but having your jaw shut and trying to breath through your nose for this time during the fight, I was so congested that I couldn’t even breathe standing up. That’s why I wasn’t able to move the same, kick the same. What I wanted to do, I wasn’t able to actually act it out and do it because my body wasn’t able to keep up. And it was like my heart was racing. It felt like breathing through a straw. So, even if it wasn’t the best lock, I was having such a hard time breathing that it was just as tight as it might have been if I was in that position if I wasn’t sick. If that makes sense.”
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