Before he’d ever stepped foot in the UFC’s Octagon, Ian Heinisch was being courted by Hollywood. Heinisch was fighting Lucas Rota in LFA a little less than two years ago, and AXS TV did a special on him detailing in quick the extraordinary life that he had led. Among the many things in Heinisch’s rearview mirror were such sordid fascinations as these: Drugs. Muling. Life on the lam. Shivs. Rikers Island. Redemption.
You know, the kind of things Hollywood spills its Château Lafite Rothschild over.
“It was a main event and I went out there and finished the guy in the first round, and right after that fight I was contacted by CAA, the Creative Artists Agency,” Heinisch says.