Following the split between UFC and USADA, it was announced last Thursday that the UFC has brought in a new “independent administrator” for anti-doping: George Piro.
Piro is a retired FBI agent and was the lone special agent to interrogate Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein back in 2004…
And he is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu brown belt!
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In an interview he’d given a year ago, George Piro shared more about his love for BJJ:
As you’re training and you get on the bottom, you have a guy who is on top of you.
They’re driving their knee into your face, they’re trying to choke you and all that and you have to become comfortable with that as that translates professionally when I’m at work.
For him, his line of work had been very similar to what he’s doing on the mats:
I research my opponents, I study their style, their game plan.
I know what my first move is going to be. I know what I’m going to do. I played it out in my mind.
I see the victory in my mind and then when I step on the mat it’s time to execute that.
Piro added:
My bureau experience definitely has allowed me to be much more confident, focused [and] disciplined.
As you know, I’ve done multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Those experiences really shape not only my discipline but my drive and now I utilize those in my new career.
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