What are some good pre-fight eating tips?

What are some good pre-fight eating tips?

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Food is very important, you want to eat the same food. Make sure it's healthy, you want to stay away from dairy, cheese, milk, eggs, all that stuff. Stay away from that. Some people are allergic to crab meat and all shellfish like me. If I eat it the next day it's very hard for me to workout, my fills with lacid acid. You need to start knowing these things. Eat stuff and write down what you ate and if the next day you have a bad workout it's probably the food. Ninety nine percent it's the food, see what you ate before, cut some things out and try it again. That's the way you find out what you can eat and what your body wants. Before you go to a fight, eat the same food. The dumbest comment I ever heard is when someone gets sick because the night before they ate at some shady sushi place or McDonald's. I've seen some things, I've seen fighters on the day of the fight eating cheeseburgers. I say, "What are you doing?" You're putting the wrong fuel in. It's simple, what you put in your body is what comes out. If you put bad food in, well bad comes out. A car that drives on gasoline won't drive on diesel. It's very simple, that's very important. Stay with the same food that you've been eating for the past six weeks before the fight. Don't change anything on the day of the fight. This guy came in on the day of the fight and said, "Listen man, I've got this great energy drink for you, try it out." That's a big no-no. You want to stay away from things your body don't know.