The benefit of hindsight brought onetime Professional Fighters League champion Jesus Pinedo to the realization that he was destined to be a mixed martial artist.
“I’d always practiced contact sports since I was a kid, since I was 6 years old,” he told Sherdog.com. “I started with karate. I did a little bit of boxing. I did kung fu. I did everything a little bit. I was looking for martial arts where I could fit everything [together that] I had practiced all my life since I was a kid. Then I saw an MMA fight on television.