The 26-year-old featherweight had zero interest in traditional martial arts growing up — he took one karate class in his youth and swore he would never go back — and didn’t even know what MMA was until he started watching combat sports series like “The Contender” and “The Ultimate Fighter.”
In fact, an old UFC video game had him thinking that cage-fighting was more like professional wrestling than anything else.
“I knew about it, but I didn’t really know,” Burgos said on Monday’s episode of The MMA Hour. “I had the old, old PS1 game, I played it, but I thought it was WWE, I didn’t really know what it was until I really saw it and sat down and watched it.