UFC fighter Brian Ortega says that he went unconscious for 30 minutes while trying to make weight for his fight in Shanghai last month.

Ortega was scheduled to face Aljamain Sterling in a 145-pound featherweight bout at UFC Shanghai, but it was moved to a catchweight of 153 pounds after both fighters missed weight .

Looking gaunt and unwell when he took to the scales, the 34-year-old Ortega has now revealed the extent of his physical struggles while trying to lose weight for the fight.

“(I was) confused on how my body wasn’t really pouring out the water or why it was just holding it in,” Ortega said in a video on his Instagram on Tuesday. “But no matter what, we have to get this weight off … I hit 20 minutes on the bike. Once I got off, I went unconscious. I was unconscious for abo

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