Daniel Cormier doesn't believe in abstaining from sex before a fight

By foxsports
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There's an old adage amongst fighters that you shouldn't have sex leading up to a bout, but UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier doesn't subscribe to that theory.

While boxing trainers like Freddie Roach have gone on the record saying they actually tell their fighters to avoid sex in the days leading up to a bout, Cormier just doesn't buy it.

"Eight weeks from the fight, I'm just going to buckle down, no more TV, no more anything. I just go into camp eight weeks and I prepare. ... I don't do that," Cormier told Colin Cowherd when asked if he stops having sex before a fight.

"I love my woman and I'm not going to abstain from that."

Cormier says there are limits to his own bedroom activities before a fight.

For instance, the night before a he steps inside the Octagon, he won't engage in any extracurricular activities but that's not because it lowers his testosterone as many boxers have claimed in the past.

For Cormier, he looks at it as something he enjoys and depriving himself of that makes him even hungrier for the competition ahead of him.

"Truthfully, I think with me, I understand the thought of laying off the sex, depriving yourself of a lot of things that make you who you are because even when I go to fight, I'll fight at 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock at night, I eat at like four in the afternoon and I'm not eating anything else because by the time I go there, I want to be starving," Cormier explained. "Because I want to feel like I'm fighting for life. You deprive yourself of some of those things, it makes you angrier.

"I want to get through this fight so I can go back and be with my woman."

Cormier says it makes him that much more determined to win, and that spirit burns inside of him until after the fight is finally over and he can relax again.

"I think all guys they get angry and all that stuff, the food, all that, it brings out this primal instinct in you when you take those things away from you," Cormier said.

Cormier also stated in the interview that he still has to spend a little bit more time rehabilitating his injured leg before he'll actually start the eight-week camp to prepare for his UFC 200 showdown with Jon Jones.