Many UFC fighters worked a job before making a living from MMA.
-Chuck Lidell. Ray Sefo. Mark Hunt. Franck Mir
. Bas Ruten, Tim Silvia, Ken Shamrock they were nightclub bouncers.
-Conor McGregor. Frankie Edgar., Plumber
-Anderson Silva McDonald’s Employees
Jan Blachowicz civil engineer.
-Mirko Cro Cop. Forest Griffin and
Andrei Arlowski (Minsk in Belarus) was a police officer.
Matt Serra was a jiu jitsu instructor in the town of Huntington Beach in Long Island NY.
-Benoît St Denis, Tim Kennedy were members of special forces. When Benoît St Denis left the army he worked as a bouncer.
-Matt Frevola, Benoît St Denis’ last opponent, is a lieutenant in the American army.
– Paulo Thiago Member of the elite group Bope, the Brazilian GIGN, they are the ones sent to patrol the Favelas… After his retirement in mma he returned to Bope.
– Rich Franklin Professor Mathematics
Israel Adesanya was born in Nigeria to a wealthy family. His parents moved to New Zealand, when he became an adult as he had stopped his studies, to acquire New Zealand nationality he had to work, so he sold phones in a store.
Stip Miocic and Don Frye were Firefighters
– Justin Gaethge and Jeff Monson Social educator.
-Alex Pereira was a Mechanic
– Georges St Pierre, Garbage collector by day and bouncer in a nightclub on the south shore of Montreal.
-Wanderlei Silva Worked in his father’s bar.
– Dominik Reyes is a computer scientist who now owns several companies.
-Matt Hughes was a Farmer.
– Mike Perry was a postman at the US Postal Service.
– Sean Strickland was a drug seller for a neo-Nazi gang. He will be in prison for one day beating his father who beat him and his mother. He will be in prison for 6 months instead of 5 years because the police defended him court.
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Michael Bisping Tiler by day, DJ by weekend.
– James Thomson and Lee Ibrahim Muray collected debts for London mafia clans.
Lee Brahim Muray is still serving a 25-year prison sentence in Morocco for having robbed $97 million in a Securitas warehouse in the south of England with accomplices. The money has never been found. He requested several pardons from the King of Morocco Mohammed VI, all his requests were refused. His accomplices were tried in England and have been free for years. Lee Muray made the wrong choice by choosing to run away to Morocco, his father’s country. Dana White will say that it was the most unmanageable fighter he had in his career.
– Al laquinta. Sean Sonnen was a real estate agent.
Rashad Evans security guard at a hospital.
– Carwin is an engineer
Cyril Gane bedding seller and telephone sales.
– Demetrius Johnson construction worker.
– Francis Ngannou he was digging in the sand mines of Yaoundé.
– Alexander Volkanosvki was a rugby player in Australia.
– Kimbo Slice bodyguard of porn actresses.
– Benson Anderson was an employee in his father’s grocery store.
– Patt Barry, Diego Sanchez, Pizza delivery man.
– Aleksander Rakic Hotel Manager.
– Clay Guida Carpenter.
– Jared Canonnier Baggage handler at the airport
– Luke Rochold was a model.
– Junior Dos Santos Salesman in a toy store.
– Shogun Rua was a model for Brazilian brands, his father made his fortune in real estate.
– Ricardo Arona like Shogun Rua comes from a privileged background and will be a model for a Brazilian surf brand.
– Fyodor will join the Russian army he will be a firefighter in a tank unit and his brother – Aleksander according to his tattoos was part of the Russian criminal clan the “Vory v Zakone. After a stay in prison he joined the Russian army.
– Charles Oliveira Street seller (ice cream, vegetables).
– Keith Jardine Firefighter and Bounty Hunter.
– Quinton Jackson sold drugs for a gang in his neighborhood.
– Fabrizio Werdum left Brazil at the age of 22 to join his Spanish mother who lived in Madrid. He worked there as a jiu jitsu teacher in several schools and also as a building painter.
