{"id":150095,"date":"2015-06-17T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=150095"},"modified":"2022-02-04T18:51:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T02:51:48","slug":"marquardt-explains-terrible-performance-it-was-the-altitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/marquardt-explains-terrible-performance-it-was-the-altitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Marquardt Explains Terrible Performance: &#8216;It was the altitude&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Nate-Marquardt.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-149734\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Nate-Marquardt.png\" alt=\"Nate Marquardt\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Nate-Marquardt.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Nate-Marquardt-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Nate-Marquardt-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Nate-Marquardt-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cJust wanted to update everyone on how I\u2019m doing. The day of the fight, I was dealing with some issues. I got some sickness and was dehydrated and cramping in my muscles. Before the fight I threw up and had abdominal cramping. Also I had an issue with my blood pressure probably due to the altitude,\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe research I did for the altitude was inconclusive and I thought that coming from Denver, I would adjust in the 4 days. I\u2019m not sure what hit me worse, the sickness or the altitude but once the fight was 2 minutes in the first round, I knew something was wrong. My legs were stiffening and not working correctly. There was one knee to my body that wasn\u2019t that hard and it cramped up my whole insides.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNow I can say that Trevor did the right thing and protected me because I couldn\u2019t move. I\u2019m not trying to make an excuse for losing. I don\u2019t really feel that I need an excuse because I did my best with what I had and fought hard when I could. I just want my friends to know why I fought like that and that I\u2019m ok. Congrats to Kelvin. He\u2019s a great fighter and I hope to train with him someday.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what UFC middleweight Nate Marquardt posted to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Nate-Marquardt\/128232759590\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook <\/a>after losing to Kelvin Gastelum in Mexico City. His corner threw in the towel and stopped the fight between rounds because he was basically out on his feet and looked like he could barely stand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chad Mendes Strips, Gets VanZant Flustered During Important Interview &#8212; WATCH!<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/3674338004001\/eaee41e3-5171-4ead-a4ec-4e7670e9e465_default\/index.html?videoId=4288504234001\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cJust wanted to update everyone on how I\u2019m doing. The day of the fight, I was dealing with some issues. I got some sickness and was dehydrated and cramping in my muscles. Before the fight I threw up and had abdominal cramping. Also I had an issue with my blood pressure probably due to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":149734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Marquardt Explains Terrible Performance: &#039;It was the altitude&#039; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nate Marquardt explains his performance during his rough loss to Kelvin Gastelum....FULL story on BJPENN.COM.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/marquardt-explains-terrible-performance-it-was-the-altitude\/\" \/>\n<meta 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