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Vettori dismisses Costa’s drunk excuse: Who drinks a bottle of wine the night before a fight?

Marvin Vettori isn’t buying the excuse that Paulo Costa was hungover prior to his middleweight title bout against Israel Adesanya at UFC 253.

‘Borrachinha’ claims that he had drunk a full bottle of wine the night before the fight, but ‘The Italian Dream’ isn’t buying it.

After all, who drinks a bottle of wine the night before the biggest fight of their career?

“How would you even think about drinking a bottle of wine the night before a title fight?” Vettori told ESPN’s Brett Okamoto ahead of his fight against Costa at UFC Fight Night 196 (h/t Sportskeeda).