{"id":390508,"date":"2021-07-20T11:44:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T18:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=390508"},"modified":"2021-07-20T11:44:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T18:44:54","slug":"stephen-thompson-reveals-he-vomited-before-ufc-264-ceremonial-weigh-ins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/stephen-thompson-reveals-he-vomited-before-ufc-264-ceremonial-weigh-ins\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Thompson reveals he vomited before UFC 264 ceremonial weigh-ins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC welterweight contender Stephen Thompson revealed that he vomited before the UFC 264 ceremonial weigh-ins two weeks ago in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/gilbert-burns-issues-statement-following-decision-win-over-stephen-thompson-at-ufc-264\/\">Thompson lost a unanimous decision to fellow contender Gilbert Burns in the co-main event of the UFC 264 pay-per-view card<\/a>. It was a disappointing showing by Thompson, who could have earned a title shot had he emerged victoriously. However, he instead was ground out for three rounds and lost a decision. But while it was a tough night at the office for Thompson on Saturday night, he admits he also had a rough one at the weigh-ins Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fF_aEej3CCs&amp;feature=emb_logo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> channel, Thompson told a story about what happened at the UFC 264 ceremonial weigh-ins. According to &#8220;Wonderboy,&#8221; he was rehydrating backstage with his father before he began to feel sick and realized that something was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile you\u2019re there, we have food and I\u2019ve got like five shakes that I have to drink, along with some water. Now I\u2019m depleted of pretty much everything at this point, and these shakes have a ton of sodium, sugars, vitamins, minerals, potassium \u2014 it\u2019s got everything you can think of in a shake, so it\u2019s rough on the body if you chug it, right?\u201d Thompson said (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2021\/7\/19\/22583887\/stephen-thompson-tells-story-of-most-embarrassing-ufc-moment-he-suffered-at-ufc-264\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAFighting.com<\/a>). &#8220;I\u2019m sitting there with my dad with a bunch of fighters around me and people are coming over to try and talk to me, and I already drank my first drink along with like two water bottles. And then I started getting \u2014 something started to happen to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDad runs over there and pushes some UFC fighters away to try and get this thing to me \u2014 and he doesn\u2019t get it to me,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cI projectile vomit everywhere. In front of the entire UFC roster. In front of everybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was certainly not the best moment of Thompson&#8217;s career, but at the same time, it&#8217;s good that he&#8217;s able to laugh about it now, especially given the tough night he had at UFC 264.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think is next for Stephen Thompson after losing to Gilbert Burns at UFC 264?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC welterweight contender Stephen Thompson revealed that he vomited before the UFC 264 ceremonial weigh-ins two weeks ago in Las Vegas. Thompson lost a unanimous decision to fellow contender Gilbert Burns in the co-main event of the UFC 264 pay-per-view card. It was a disappointing showing by Thompson, who could have earned a title shot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54477,"featured_media":386410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10132,39610],"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>Stephen Thompson reveals he vomited before UFC 264 ceremonial weigh-ins | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC welterweight contender Stephen Thompson revealed that he vomited before the UFC 264 ceremonial weigh-ins two weeks ago in Las Vegas.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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