I’ve come a long way from the day I broke my own nose

The hardest thing for me in my life happened four years ago, when I lost my father

My mom got killed in front of me. I had to watch her die. People had come to get my dad, he wasn’t there so they went after my mom. She hid...

I am not an angry person, I just love the feeling of fighting. The rush it gives you knowing you are going to war, and taking on that warrior spirit.

I have spent my whole fighting career harming people; it is what I do for a living. Now I want to balance things out and help people.

When I was depressed in my boring IT job, I knew I had to do something about it – and that was following my passion into MMA.

I have some memories of growing up in California, but at the age of five or six we moved to Brazil and most of my childhood was spent there.

"I have always been attracted to danger"

I grew up in Jordan. In school we would fight every other day – it was challenging and you had to defend yourself at all times.

Training is my only escape from the pain. It is the zone where I don’t think, I don’t feel, I just grind.