Derek Brunson had a strong wrestling background in high school, but he also doubled as a cheerleader.
Brunson touched on his high school cheerleading career during a media scrum in Ottawa on Thursday. “That’s funny [laughs]. I used to cheerlead back in high school,” he said in video posted by MMA Junkie. “That was one of the better things. I came into MMA and I had a strong core and a lot flexibility. I could put myself in a lot of different positions when it comes to scrambling. Over the years I stopped doing all the tumbling and tossing girls in the air, so I definitely lost a little bit of upper-body and core-strength.