UFC’s Kamaru Usman Peed Blood, Misplaced 17 Pounds, Drove Self to ER with COVID-19

UFC huge name Kamaru Usman handled principal symptoms after finding out certain for COVID-19 final summer.

Usman told Dotun Akintoye of ESPN that he misplaced his sense of smell and taste and changed into urinating blood because he changed into so dehydrated. He drove himself to the emergency room and realized he had gotten smaller the coronavirus.

Over the essential eight days of feeling symptoms, Usman said he misplaced 17 pounds.

His bout with the virus got here at this time after defeating Jorge Masvidal at UFC 251.

“Man, I genuine made all this money and I’m no longer gonna be ready to exhaust it,” he thought to himself.

Usman simplest confronted Masvidal final July because his within the starting up scheduled opponent, Gilbert Burns, tested certain for COVID-19 sooner than the fight.

Burns changed into firstly upset about missing his different for a title fight nonetheless later realized the implications of the disease.

“My vitality degree changed into no longer common coming abet,” he said in December.

Both men finally returned to the Octagon in February as Usman defended his welterweight title with a third-spherical knockout make a choice over Burns in UFC 258. Usman is now location to face Masvidal, the No. 4 contender at 170 pounds, in a rematch at UFC 261 on Saturday.

Usman is straight away ice climbing the rankings of the most essential within the game, on the 2d ranked the No. 2 pound-for-pound fighter in UFC. If the Nigeria native retains adding to his 18-1 profession epic, he shall be thought to be one in all the most essential in MMA history.

His sickness, which kept him out of the gym for six weeks, mute showed that COVID-19 can impression anybody.