A fighter started MMA at 16 and knocked out his opponent in his debut. Growing up in Southeast London during the 1990s and 2000s meant constant street fights. By his early twenties, he'd racked up 30 MMA bouts.
So you've done all different types of fighting, right? You've done regular boxing, bare knuckle, MMA style.
So I started in MMA when I was, I was actually 16. My first 5 fights were actually underage. Wow. Kind of had to choose if I wanted to keep fighting. I'd say after the first fight and I knocked him out, I was like, yo, I'm gonna keep fighting this. I grew up in South London, like fighting all the time, you know. Southeast London in the '90s, 2000s, like a lot of problems, a lot of stuff as it is now.
How many MMA fights did you have? 30. At what moment did you realize that you're going to be a professional fighter?
Dropped out of school. I didn't have the best grades, you know. I was supposed to go to the army. I had like a leaving date and everything. My dad was like, "Fuck it, if you're gonna go to the army, you're gonna get a fight in." My dad wanted to have a fight. Then after that, he gets on the mic and he's like, "Yeah, I beat the father, now I'm gonna fight the son." And he like called me out after beating my pops. I was like, "Fuck this dude." So then I fought him and then—
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