“My brother and I did taekwondo, and then we came to the MMA gym and started practicing there,” the American said in the next edition of the MMA Hour program. “I soon decided that I wanted to get into the cage. I saw kids going out into the cage and fighting other kids, and I went out to my first fight when I was eight years old.”
“It was a competition for participants under the age of eighteen, with a lower limit of eight or nine years. The only limitation was that there were no blows to the head. We only had four ounce gloves and nothing else. As a child, I won twenty-one victories and suffered two defeats.
The young fighter chalked up his first win under the UFC banner last weekend with a first-round takedown of Jay Perrin, but now he’s confident he can take on reigning division champion Aljamain Sterling.
“If they offer me a title fight right now, I can not only go out and win, but I will finish off the one who holds the championship belt, and at the moment it is Aljamain Sterling. It probably won’t be a title fight next, but I’m ready to take on any of the top 15 and finish it with a big statement.”