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FIGHTER TELLS OF WEIGHT-LOSS TORTURE ON VIDEO

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– a practice he called “the water curtain”. He explained: “The last week, that’s the water curtain. That’s when we cut.

“We do the water load, drink multiples until you drink a little bit.

“But I’m still eating. I never stop eating. I’m never hungry.

“It’s not until I cut the water – I usually cut the water three or four days before. And when you cut the water that last three or four days, that’s when you cut your carbs down.”

Jordan was used to getting up at 6.30am and would train for four hours each day. He said: “You go running and get back for 77.3030 or 7407.40. That’s whenhen training begins.

“It’s your usual Muay Thai training – pads, sparring, clinching. We do that from 7.30am until about 9.30am and then go back, eat, sleep, then come back and do it all again.”

Jordan’s mum Lisa, 51, flew to Thailand on Monday to collect his body and demand answers about his death.

Her son was found dead 160 miles from the capital Bangkok last Saturday as he attempted to lose 3kg so he could make a 61kg fight the following night.

An online fundraisin­g campaign to

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repatriate­repatriate­hisbodhisb­ody hashasrais­edmoretrai­sedmoretha­n £23,000. The fighter – who boxed under the name Jordan Lamnammoon – was due to take on Cambodian Khon Bola tonight.

Superfit Jordan also confessed that brutal weight cutting put fighters under extreme pressure before fights.

He took up the sport as an 11-year-old before landing sponsorshi­p with the Sumalee fight club in Thailand.

Jordan added: “If you have one bad session, you question your entire training. Everyone starts to question if they’re good enough.”

I usually cut the water three or four days before a fight. That’s the water curtain

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