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Phil De Fries is ready to make a big change after being knocked down in his last fight. Tom Aspinall’s teammate chugged beer to celebrate defending his KSW heavyweight title for the 13th time on Saturday night. However, things could’ve been so different if Štefan Vojčák had been able to capitalize on dropping Phil De Fries in the first round of their KSW 111 matchup. The 39-year-old is happy to have stretched his win streak to 16, despite drinking alcohol through camp and during fight week – but De Fries knows that’s a bad habit he must break or risk losing his heavyweight strap. Phil De Fries admits to bad habit Phil De Fries is planning to go cold turkey for 12 weeks ahead of his next heavyweight title defense. The Englishman says a combination of getting dropped and feeling exhausted during his latest fight has shocked him into a lifestyle change. It was a tough fight,” De Fries said during an exclusive interview with Bloody Elbow. “I was so tired. I’ve never been so tired in my whole life. It’s gonna be a reality check for me. “I need to work harder. My lifestyle is terrible. I drink beers every weekend, twice a week sometimes. “On the Tuesday before the fight, I was drinking whiskey – but I’ve been doing that for five years. “Everyone says, ‘You can’t do that, Phil’. I’m like, ‘Well, I bloody can. I’m beating everybody.’ “But I don’t think you can do it, especially when you reach a certain age. “It’s party time now, but I’m gonna start doing 12 weeks clean if I can. Conor McGregor partied ahead of UFC 229 Conor McGregor admitted he was drinking throughout his camp for the Khabib Nurmagomedov fight. ‘Notorious’ even consumed alcohol in the days leading up to his submission loss at UFC 229 in October 2018. McGregor imposed a booze ban on himself before knocking out Donald Cerrone in 40 seconds when he returned from his biggest loss of his legendary MMA career. “Good couple of months ago (since I drank),” the Irishman told Conan O’Brien in January 2020. “I was drinking all the way through fight week last time (for Nurmagomedov).” “Not to that extent (it wasn’t common),” McGregor added when asked if he usually drinks before his fights. “I just had this venom in me or something. I don’t know why. “I had people holed up in a hotel from that part of the world (Russia), and I would ring and arrange a fight, and I would ring them and they would come down to the gym and have a full-blown fight – no head guard, gloves that were small. “A fight. I’d win, I’d have a war, and I’d win and I’d knock the guy out, then I’d go off and celebrate. Then I’d come back in three days – not doing what I should’ve been doing, not living the life I should’ve been.”
