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Kenny Florian

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  1. “From an incorrect perspective, in my opinion. So seeing that was just mind-blowing thing for me. And I said, I want to reconnect with martial arts. Like I want to do what that guy is doing. He was not a big guy. He was the smallest guy actually in the competition. He was winning oftentimes without even throwing a strike. He knows something. He's doing things that other people just aren't ready for. And that was fascinating to me. And I felt that getting in a real fight for the large part of my life was one of the scariest things ever. And I had two choices really. It was run away from it or run towards it. And I would have this dream that would haunt me over and over again like so many people, I'm sure, have had, where you get in a fight, you're hitting someone and it does nothing.”

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  2. “A little bit. Yeah, I came from striking. Yeah. So I was like, I did karate as a kid and all that stuff. So I was like, of course, a karate guy is the most dangerous guy in the world. They can kill you with one strike. But that was kind of all theory. Or we were kind of looking at it.”

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  3. “We saw what actually worked. And I remember my mind just being blown because I immediately assumed that the best fighter in the world would be this big jacked up striker. This guy who would just knock people out left and right. My brother had told me, Hey, this Brazilian guy won. I said, Well, was he jacked? Was he just knocking guys out left and right? He's like, no, he kind of just like gets a hold of him, brings them to the ground and he gets him in these holes. And I was like, so disappointed. I was like, wait, what? What's going on? And I remember seeing it and I kind of wasn't a big fan just because it was not in line with what I thought fighting was. Well, you had this more.”

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  4. “And this family called the Gracies had developed this system in Brazil, which is a modification of Japanese jiu-jitsu, Japanese judo. And they made it, I guess, more efficient, a more effective for a real one-on-one fight. I had seen this. I was more involved in soccer at the time. I was at BC playing soccer, and my brother had called me and told me to check this thing out. And it was kind of everything that the kids talked about like who would be the best fighter? Who's the best fighter? Is it the Heavyweight champion of the world in boxing? Is it a wrestler? Yada, yada, ya. And we actually saw this play out in real time. It wasn't a movie. This was real.”

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  5. “Even since a kid, it was just like I could do that for hours. I would just focus and I don't know. There was something different about it, even like from soccer. And of course, there's the individual component where everything is on you. So I don't know. There was this thing called the ultimate fighting championship. And it was in the early days. It was developed in 1993, as most people know. And it kind of developed into a sport. First, it was kind of this thing of let's see what the best martial art is and let's find the best martial artists from all different disciplines all over the world. And let's have them fight and let's see what's going to work in a real fight. And time and time again, the answer was Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.”

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  6. “I did martial arts as a kid. I was more involved in soccer. I played soccer at Boston College, so I had done that for a very long time. So you go from one of the wimpiest sports to one of the toughest sports, which is pretty funny. But yeah, so for whatever reason, anytime I did martial arts, it seemed like the world stopped. It seemed like it was this magical thing, this spiritual connection.”

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  7. “Yeah, that's a great question. I definitely was one of those people that a lot of people said you don't look like a fighter. You don't have that kind of traditional background of a fighter. My father was a physician. He was a thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon. So he was pretty disappointed when his college graduate son decided he wanted to become this martial artist. At first it was just like, I want to do martial arts for my life or I want to see where this goes. And he was like, what? How are you going to make money doing that? Yeah, yeah. That's what kind of it was about in the beginning. And I don't know. He actually was a martial artist. He was a black belt and judo even through medical school. And he kind of wanted us all to learn how to do martial art.”

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