Even when he doesn’t have an opponent scheduled, Noad Lahat is always getting ready for a fight.
That’s reality when you’re an Israeli-born mixed martial artist who comes from a country seemingly in perpetual conflict and trains in a nation where internal strife appears to be growing daily. Lahat may have made a productive move to the Xtreme Couture gym in Las Vegas, but he is also an active reserve of the Israeli Defense Forces.
Suffice to say, he had a strong reaction to the racially charged “Unite the Right” rally that recently occurred in Charlottesville, Va.