India, Sept. 21 -- By Vipul Kashyap

Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 21 (ANI): Indian mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter Varun Sanyal, who could not compete in the Asian Games due to medical reasons, has said he does not want to dwell on his medal hopes but talked about his efforts to reduce weight.

Varun, who was to compete in the men's 77kg category, said he had to reduce his weight alone on short notice.

"I don't want to go too much into it and kind of yap on about it. But long story short is, I didn't have any officials with me. I had to cut weight alone. It was on short notice. So, it is what it is. I wouldn't recommend that anyone just randomly cuts weight, let alone do it by themselves," Varun told ANI.

"But what choice did I have...