A few weeks ago, UFC veteran and ex-Strikeforce champ Josh Thomson spoke about his 2015 fight with Tony Ferguson and how it “changed” both his life and career. It was a sobering revelation about the crude and barbarous realities of prizefighting, which are usually concealed by the glitz and romanticism of potential superstardom.
I was never thrown in at the deep end like that, but I figure that it must be a similar experience when you fought Wanderlei Silva back in the day. Especially during his peak as “The Axe Murderer,” you likely went home with a concussion, at best and a soul filled with trauma, at worst.