“It was a miscalculation, first and foremost. I did dehydration in a different manner. Toward my last day, I already started drinking way less water than most (other times). So they said, ‘Do it this way, and everything’s going to be all right.’ Well, stuff that I do that I will end up losing 2-3 pounds on, I was losing half of it and not even losing at all on my last day, in my last attempts.
“We were over by about 3 pounds, so she didn’t accept it at first – rightfully so; it’s her right to not accept it. So we go back to the PI and some stuff that was not working before started working a little bit. We lost the equivalent of that pound within three rounds of training for 30 minutes. It was half sweat and half crying, so half tears, because I was like, listen, God, I want to fight more than anything. Everything we’ve gone through, everything we’ve been through to actually get to this point, all I want to do is fight.”
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