Ross Pearson won a fight on May 15. It wasn’t in the UFC Octagon, it was with ten-ounce, not four-ounce gloves, and it was in a new combat sports venue for “The Real Deal.”
And as Pearson stopped Salar King in two rounds to move to 1-0 as a professional boxer, the native of Sunderland, England was alive again, doing what he loves the most: fighting.
That the 34-year-old Pearson started a new journey in the fight game following his April retirement from mixed martial arts is no surprise. When UFC President Dana White says fighting is in our DNA, he probably has guys like Pearson in mind.