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Paulo Costa challenged for the UFC Middleweight Title in the main event of UFC 253, suffering a second round TKO loss to Israel Adesanya.
It appears that Costa wasn’t all there when he fought the champion, as the defeated fighter admits that he may have been hungover when the title bout took place.
“I was kind of drunk [when] I fought, maybe, on hangover,” Costa said in Portuguese on his Youtube channel (via MMA Fighting). “I couldn’t sleep because of the [leg] cramps. Keep in mind that the fight happens at 9 a.m. [local time], we have to wake up at 5 to get ready, stretch, wrap the hands. The UFC told us to wake up at 5 in the morning to go to the arena to fight. I hadn’t slept until 2:30. It was my mistake and I don’t blame anyone else, it was something I chose [to do], but, in order to try to sleep, because I had to sleep since I was awake for 24 hours, I had wine, too much wine, a bottle [of wine] to try to black out. I had a glass and didn’t work. Two glasses, it didn’t work. Half bottle, didn’t work. I had it all.”
Costa will have a chance to redeem himself from his drunken stumblings when he faces former UFC Middleweight Champion Robert Whittaker on April 17.
