Reigning UFC Featherweight Champion Alex Volkanovski again talked on how he contracted coronavirus. Earlier, he already said that everything was very bad, and today he revealed the details of the course of the disease. The fighter reported that he had an extremely low pulse and was coughing up blood.
“My heart rate was 37 beats per minute. I didn't know what was going on. It scared me. My breathing became difficult, I started coughing up phlegm with a little blood,” Volkanovski said.
Because of his illness, Alex was forced to withdraw from the fight against Brian Ortega.