To hear Carlos Leal Miranda tell it, he happened upon his profession.
“I didn’t choose fighting. Fighting chose me,” he told Sherdog.com. “One day when I was young, I walked into an academy simply looking to do some weight training. The same location had muay thai classes. I could see them when I was working out.” Curiosity soon got the best of him. “I decided to do a trial class, [and] I haven’t stopped since,” Miranda said. “The more I trained, the more I liked it. Then I started adding other martial arts, like no-gi submissions and traditional jiu-jitsu.