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Johny Hendricks Blames UFC 192 Weight Cut Issues on Deer Meat

October 13, 2015 | Posted by Larry Csonka

– Johny Hendricks recently spoke with The MMA Hour, discussing his weight cutting issues at UFC 192. Here are the highlights…

On His Weight Cut Issues and Deer Meat Being Part of The Problem: “That’s what sucks more than anything, is that you work so hard to showcase what you have, and all of a sudden the diet that we were on backfires,” Hendricks said. “Which sucks, but I’ve learned after we did this, we did a lot of research, and I was eating a lot of deer meat and a lot of high-protein animal protein, which, that’s the leading cause of kidney stones and your intestines failing you. I had no idea, because I usually eat a lot of fish and a lot of chicken. I wanted to eat more protein, a lot of cleaner protein, so we focused more on that and it ended up backfiring. I think that if I would’ve eaten more chicken and salmon, I wouldn’t have been in this situation.”

On Fans ā€œSpitting Venomā€: “I know there’s going to be venom sent, but what people don’t understand is that they don’t get to watch one fight, right? Well, I don’t get paid,” Hendricks said. “And like I said, I had to give up three months in training camp. I worked very hard and I was very prepared to fight Woodley. And then the next fight, let’s say probably in March or April, I would be fighting for the title. So these people that are spitting venom, they don’t look at that. They only look at what’s in front of them at that moment.”

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