Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Before the UFC, before The Ultimate Fighter, before the lights and the cage, he was a kid trying to figure out what to do with the fight inside of him.
After losing his father at a young age, Michael started getting into trouble. But eventually, he realized that if he didn’t change, he was either going to get hurt, hurt somebody else, end up in jail, or ruin his life before it ever really started.
So he turned the negative into something positive.
And behind all of it was the strength of his mother, the woman who showed him what it meant to keep going.
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/bCLMhXOxcQs
Before the UFC, before The Ultimate Fighter, before the lights and the cage, he was a kid trying to figure out what to do with the fight inside of him.
After losing his father at a young age, Michael started getting into trouble. But eventually, he realized that if he didn’t change, he was either going to get hurt, hurt somebody else, end up in jail, or ruin his life before it ever really started.
So he turned the negative into something positive.
And behind all of it was the strength of his mother, the woman who showed him what it meant to keep going.
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/bCLMhXOxcQs
