Joe Rogan - Kevin Lee on Fighting Tony Ferguson with a Staph Infection

Ridiculous how frustrating was it you for you going into that Tony Ferguson fight with that staff infection because that was a that was a serious Fuck I didn't notice it at the weigh-ins But then the moment you walked into the cage it was funny man because they were telling DC don't talk about it Yeah, that's staff that that is fucking staff and then they said to DC don't talk about it You know if that looks like staff to me. He just ignored me. Fuck you That's staff man. I don't know why they didn't want anybody bringing it up because it's an important point It's it's an unfortunate thing that happens during training sometimes Yeah, it I kind of noticed on that Sunday You know in the Tuesday we do the check-ins and everything and I had the girl I'm like can you you know put some makeup on it because I didn't want right, you know, nobody to find out and Even Tony him, you know, I if he would have saw it he would have knew he knew I compromised all that But yeah, it frustrated things. It made things a lot more complicated. It put me it made the weight cut Terrible Just to go back to it. I mean I'm cutting from 76 to 50 I have to be 55 for that fight and I try my best to skim it down in about 12 hours So I woke up at 5 a.m. With at about 162 And weigh-ins are between 9 and 11 and from 5 a.m. Till 8 a.m. I had only cut one pound Compared to in other cuts that have gone really well I would normally cut about four or five pounds at that time But because I I just was feeling good and I wasn't worried about it and thus and I was using the same temperature of water I was using the same everything but the staff made my body hold on to the water Hmm So when I went down to check this all that was still like five pounds up with like two hours to go They start like throwing pooling hot water on me to get you know to get my body Yeah, they give me sweating to get it off. It was brutal. Yeah, that's a first for note for someone who doesn't Never never experienced staff explain what does your body? Yeah, it makes you feel the next day I just I felt so tired I never felt as tired in my life and it felt I felt so tired to the point where I tried to counteract it by getting myself as pumped as I can and The you know, well you normally get there two hours before the fight when I walked into the arena that night two hours before I was In a sweat, you know, my body was like full of adrenaline medication you weren't going on antibiotics You figure did you have to decide whether you should take antibiotics and then you know that compromises your endurance for sure Or just let your body fight it off. I had it before so I had been on the antibiotics and they just make terrible You know if you've ever Been through it. I mean, it's a terrible feeling. So I I just was like, you know what? I think I can just push through it and I'm young and I was like, you know, fuck it Like let's just go like did you try any like natural remedies? Yeah You know, it wasn't a whole lot at the take cuz I also got to cut the weight still, you know There's like some topical stuff that one of the things they say that works really well topical believe it or not is minced garlic Garlic apparently has a tremendous effect on staph infections. I was swallowing whole cloves of ginger I would take ginger. I would chop it up and I'd swallow it To see if that would do something but you know, it's hard. Yes a heart There's a garlic has some real strong antibacterial properties and one of the people that have been on the podcast many times Dr. Rhonda Patrick said she had dealt with some persistent staph infection And she had like a you know hole in her skin and what she did was she took garlic and packed it into that hole And fucking killed it. I mean, I wish I would have known that before I just kind of just fought through it I was like fuck it. I'm just going Defense soap makes some really good stuff for that too. They make these essential oils It's tea tree oil and eucalyptus oil and you put it on like right where they have a mission What were you in in October? Anybody else that has that staff Anytime you have any sort of ringworm or staff or anything? There's some natural stuff not like some bullshit homeopathic nonsense, but some actual real natural stuff that can help you and defense soap specializes in that because Guy Sacco the guy owns the company he is you know Coaches wrestling and deals with kids that always have ringworm and staph infection So he came out with these soaps these natural soaps that are just designed for grapplers That's why it's called defense soap No And then I'll have them send you some and then the essential oils and bombs and stuff like ointments for scratches and shit like That so they don't get infected that's you know gyms. It's you're always getting infected Yeah And that's it that was one of the biggest focuses of this campus like make sure I stay healthy because if you don't have your health You don't have nothing and that was what it was that that Tony fight in is just it became something I didn't want to it was such a big event and it was my first real big event too That I just wanted it all just to go right and go over but it ended up being just a lot of my body The staff originally I think it came from mental stress. You know it was so many stresses going on You know you really sure yeah you and you look at the three biggest stressors You know I was going through a divorce, and I just moved into a house you look at those in a normal day-to-day Life that those are like the two biggest stressors you can have Then to add on fighting for world title in six weeks, so I'm just like let's fucking go like I like you know I wouldn't expect in there. I was thinking maybe They was gonna give me Tony, but maybe in December in the in in Detroit or something like that when it was like six weeks I like hi well fuck that's right. They were thinking about doing you in Detroit right that was that was that was the talk And you were requesting a big fight in Detroit. Yeah, yeah, that's where all my like You know every year I kind of sure plan on my year, and I got my vision in my head I gotta call them waltables in there That was one of them, but yeah it ended up putting a little bit too much stress on me all that once And I took on a lot for that one, but you did Tell you what man when you took him down and mounted him in the first round I was like holy shit because I know how good Tony is on the ground