Long periods of fasting might not be what most fighters would consider ideal conditions as they prepare for bouts, but UFC Fight Night 131’s Belal Muhammad isn’t letting it stop him. If anything, as he abstains from all liquids or food from dawn until dusk in observance of the holy month of Ramadan, practicing Muslin Muhammad (13-2 MMA, 4-2 UFC) believes he comes into tonight’s welterweight meeting with UFC debutant Chance Rencountre (12-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC) with an edge of his own. “Like they say, a hungry lion is scarier than a full lion,” Muhammad told MMAjunkie Radio ahead of the FS1-televised preliminary-card fight at Adirondack Bank Center in Utica, N.Y. “I’m going to come in there hungry and ready to go.” It helps that this isn’t the first time that Muhammad had to prepare under these unique circumstances. In fact, he’s done it twice before, ahead of a unanimous-decision win to Jordan Mein in July and a unanimous-decision “Fight of the Night” loss to Alan Jouban in 2016. At this point, Muhammad said, he’s pretty much used to it. “People don’t really know how far they can push their body until they actually do it,” Muhammad said
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UFC Utica’s Belal Muhammad talks what it’s like to fast from dawn to dusk – MMA Junkie