My friend asked me, “How long has he been training?” I told him that he never trained a day in his life. I have this kid who wants to fight in the UFC, and he wants you to train him.” I pondered this and then told him, “Oh wait, I need to ask you something. He said that he hadn’t because he wasn’t good at memorizing scripts, and he felt uncomfortable in that setting. I asked him how long he had been taking acting classes. Within three months of being here, I had started taking acting classes at the Beverly Hills Playhouse because I wanted to be ready for when something would present itself.Īs an example of what happens when you don’t prepare for a post-fighting future, an MMA fighter friend of mine told me that he wanted to have an agent for acting because he wanted to be an actor.
I considered being a stuntman, fight choreographer or actor. When I came to America in 1997, my goal was to try to do something in television or movies after I was done fighting. You might think that you can fight for four more years, but what if a car hits you tonight and you have a compound fracture, or something else happens that will not allow you to fight anymore? Are you prepared for that? Many are not, so why not start preparing now?
You do not know when your fighting career is going to end. It drives me nuts that not many ex-fighters prepare for the inevitable ends of their days in the ring!
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