Sage Northcutt expects to be ‘stronger than ever’ after tonsils removed

But after a year-plus plagued by strep throat and illnesses which would come, go, and return worse than before, even he started to have his doubts -- particularly when he dropped two of his three fights in 2016.

“I was a little worried because I would train very hard, I’d been feeling great, and then out of nowhere, I’d get kind of sick, all of a sudden,” Northcutt said on Tuesday’s edition of The MMA Hour. “Of course, as anybody would do who fights, especially a UFC fighter, they would try to train through it, so I would train through it, and then it would just run my body down more and more.”

But Northcutt finally has his issues resolved, taking care of the root cause, infected tonsils, by…