A UFC star was rushed to hospital after struggling respiration difficulties earlier than a combat attributable to “paint fumes.”

Lucas Alexander is a high identify in UFC and competed ultimately weekend’s grand occasion in Saudi Arabia.

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The ace went up in opposition to rival Bogdan Grad on the undercard of Israel Adesanya’s defeat to Nassourdine Imavov.

However he was simply dispatched within the second spherical by knockout.

Later, Alexander was rushed to hospital with respiration difficulties.

A surprising image confirmed the MMA star on a ventilator in try to resolve the problem.

He was later launched with medical therapy to open his lungs.

And Alexander has now claimed his respiration points arose attributable to paint fumes on the venue in Saudi.

He informed followers on Instagram: “On Saturday, we arrived on the locker rooms round 2.30pm and there was a very robust odor of paint fumes with seemingly no air circulation all through the room.

“Those near me know I undergo with extreme sinus points relating to totally different smells and seasonal allergy symptoms.

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“For 3 hours I felt dizzy, had low power and felt like I may go to sleep any minute. By the point I used to be imagined to heat up, I may inform I used to be tremendous flat. I did what I may whatever the scenario.

“After the combat I used to be taken to hospital attributable to shortness of breath and over the subsequent a number of hours couldn’t cease a runny nostril, sneezing, coughing and wheezing.

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“After not sleeping the entire night time, I went again to hospital the subsequent morning and acquired a respiration therapy with cortisol to open my lungs and despatched house with an inhaler to make use of a number of occasions a day.”

Alexander was not the one fighter to undergo at UFC Saudi Arabia because of the paint fumes.

Jairzinho Rozenstruik blamed his defeat to Sergei Pavlovich on inhaling the odor beforehand.

The ace, who was launched by UFC after the loss, tweeted: “After a robust combat week, I felt dizzy on Saturday because of the paint fumes.

“Whereas this chapter closes, my story is fa from over. I’ll proceed to combat, tackle new challenges and settle unfinished enterprise within the cage.

“I’m prepared for no matter comes subsequent!”