BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Eleven months ago, after losing a listless unanimous decision against Diego Sanchez, Jim Miller was contemplating walking away from fighting at just 32 years old. His grand design, what he was planning in the abstract, was to potentially say goodbye to MMA at UFC 200 after his fight with Takanori Gomi. But before he did that, he figured out what the problem was.
He was diagnosed as having Lyme disease, an infectious bacterial disease that results in, among other things, extreme enervation and fatigue.
Miller was able to take out Gomi in just 2:18 of the first round via TKO.