Despite a relatively successful lightweight run in the UFC, Kevin Lee doesn’t see himself fighting at 155 pounds again. As “The Motown Phenom” told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s episode of The MMA Hour, that decision came after a brutal weight cut he went through for his interim title fight against Tony Ferguson in 2017.
“The Ferguson one, I felt like I was close to death, for sure,” he said. “If I would’ve had to pull off an extra half a pound, I would’ve probably had to go to the hospital.”
“(It felt) like the biggest adrenaline rush that you can possibly feel.