“I ate 7 pills of melatonin”- Rafael Fiziev shares a scary incident that happened before his fight against Rafael Dos Anjos
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Rafael Fiziev and Rafael Dos Anjos surely delivered in what was a pretty mundane event at UFC Vegas 58. The headliners of the fight night completely gave the fans the fight they wanted to see. The rising lightweight prospect took on the former lightweight champion and showed the world that he can hold his own against veterans of the best MMA promotion.
UFC Vegas 58 took place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada. The fight night was headlined by the amazing lightweight bout between two amazing fighters who stylistically matched perfectly with each other. Rafael Fiziev, the lightweight prospect from Azerbaijan, and Rafael Dos Anjos, the former champion of the 155-pound division took on each other to determine who the “Best Rafael of the UFC” was.
At UFC Vegas 58, Fiziev showed that he can stuff takedowns very well and also get back to the feet even if happened to be taken down. In the final round of the fight, Fiziev landed an amazing combo that knocked down RDA to the floor. The Azerbaijani made sure he got the stoppage with a right hand before the referee stopped the fight.
“I might go sleep in the fight”- Rafael Fiziev started freaking out after taking sleeping pills
Fiziev called out Justin Gaethje after the fight, and to further add to his credit his manager revealed that he took some meds, and forced himself to throw up right before the fight. Talking on The MMA Hour, Fiziev’s manager said, “The night before the fight, he cannot go to sleep, so he took one melatonin pill.”
He added, “Then he took second. Third. Then he still couldn’t fall asleep, then he took another, some CBD gummy with melatonin. He take it, and then he ask me, ‘Oh, did I take too much melatonin? Is it going to affect me during the fight?’ I was like, ‘Why do you do something and then think about what you’re doing.'”
“So he went to the bathroom, and then he made himself throw up all this, the pills he took, all the melatonin pills he took.” Fiziev then added, “I ate seven pills of melatonin in total. I started to be scared, like maybe I might go sleep in the fight, so I needed to go throw up.”
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