UFC Fight Night (3/13/21) Semelsberger knocked out Jason Witt (punch) at :16 of round one
When and why did you start training for fighting? I entered an MMA program at a school close to home when I was 14 years old and a freshman in high school. Before I had seen UFC fights for the first time, I was scared of getting into a fight and witnessed many of them happen at school or while traveling for sports competitions in youth leagues. I had done some years of youth wrestling but fist fights seemed like a whole different ball game to me and it was a game I wanted to learn how to play in case I ever found myself in a position where violence was my only option. That all changed after one of my wrestling buddies, whose house I was playing at, showed me his collection of the Ultimate Fighting Championship DVDs and VHS tapes. I watched Royce Gracie win the first UFC tournament and was in awe when I saw guys like Chuck Liddell and Forrest Griffin throwing down in an Octagon-shaped cage. I was fascinated by it all, and I decided right then and there that one day I would fight in the UFC. When I started training as a freshman in high school, I had two reasons for it; To learn how to defend myself, and to start building the skills necessary to make it to the UFC.