Bellator MMA veteran Matt Bessette was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of three, and battled through the disease for nearly eight years until he was cleared as cancer-free. Bessette discusses his childhood and how his battle with leukemia led to mixed martial arts.
If anyone's a natural born killer, it's Matt Bessette.
Bessette, a Bellator MMA veteran, chooses to fight now, but was forced to fight during his childhood. At only the age of three, Bessette developed a life-threatening case of leukemia, a white blood cell cancer most common in adults.
It was far from a typical childhood for him.