There was a time in Blagoy Ivanov's life where the future wasn't so certain. In 2012, the current World Series of Fighting heavyweight champion was laid up in a hospital bed after being stabbed in his native Bulgaria.
Things seemed dim for a bit for Ivanov, but he never stopped fighting -- because he wanted to get back to that other kind of fighting: mixed martial arts.
"The whole time when I was in the hospital, I thought about my comeback," Ivanov told MMA Fighting. "All the time I wanted to fight. I didn't want to stop fighting.