VIDEO. The fighter Cédric Doumbé before his fight at the MMA GP Paris

“It’s important for me to be the best, already, of 1, because I have a big mouth, so if I don’t assume behind it, it’s very complicated, and I think my career, it can be extinguished very, very quickly.” He wants to be the best, and does everything to make it happen. Cédric Doumbé and a Franco-Cameroonian MMA fighter. After his month and a half of preparation, he faced Pavel Klimas, a Polish fighter, at the MMA GP Paris, this Saturday March 4. On occasion, Brut has followed him in his pre-fight preparation.

“Every fighter is going to say losing weight is the hardest part”

First of all, each fighter must pass the weighing stage. “On the day of the weigh-in, so the day before the fight, I have to arrive at a weight that does not exceed 77 kilos. Clearly, if we ask the question to an athlete, a high-level fighter, we ask him ‘What is the hardest thing?’, apart from the heavyweights, who do not have this restriction, each fighter will answer losing weight is the most difficult”does he think.

Once past this stage, the binding of the hands is also a crucial pre-fight element. “The particularity of the bandages is the maintenance of the hand, the wrist and the prevention of injury. For me, it’s very important, especially because I hit very, very hard, so there’s a big risk of injury. The hardest bone in the human body is the forehead and we are not immune to blows to the skull and it is very dangerous for the hands. There are a lot of fighters who break their hand in a very tough fight.”