Has won 2 amateur fights by dominant fashion against upcoming fighters, becoming youngest purple belts in Scotland at 17 years of age
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They love the beauty of the sports and the values you learn through mixed martial arts, he appreciates all the lessons such as discipline, mental toughness and confidence. He appreciates how you can only succeed through hard work and dedication and trains 15+ hours a week. He appreciates the amount of adversity you face through failing in training and understand that it is a gift for learning, he loves how you can meet so many people and build a family through sport
He is inspired by likes of ilia topuria bc of his mindset and how he speaks on the law of attraction, he appreciates the discipline of khabib and takes little things from each of the greats and try to develop his own way, he was obsessed with Michael Jordan growing up same with ronaldo as they were said to be hardest workers (first one in last one to leave training) and it shows through their performance and he aspires to do the exact same and be at the top
I am proud of him every day, as he balances school a job and training, I cannot name one specifically, I was proud when he won the European championships in gi and no gi for jiu jitsu then went on to win no gi world championships down in England
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