Daron Cruickshank is not in Michigan anymore.
Heading into his Rizin Fighting Federation debut April 17 against Shinji Sasaki (16-8-3) at the Nippon Gaishi Hall in Nagoya, Japan, Cruickshank (16-8, one no-contest) finds himself far removed from Western Civilization – and that's not necessarily a bad thing.
"They have some different things going on here [in Japan]," Cruickshank told MMA Fighting. "All the public toilets are basically just a hole in the ground, and I’m like, ‘Holy crap. How do I use this thing without shi**ing everywhere?’ The toilet in my room has a heater, so you can preheat it before you sit down on it.