TRAINING VIDEO - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB_PJm4DfuA

Although I have been asked 'why do you fight?' more times than I can remember... it has been a while since questions about mixed martial arts and my future have been asked of me (in conjunction with one another that is).

So, when someone asked me why I wanted to fight again... I really had to stop and think about it. And although this may sound as though it has nothing to do with fighting, my goal has always been to perfect the imperfection that is my life, to explore the chaos and emerge an evolved man, win or lose... for better or for worse.

Fighting has always allowed me to do this, or, at the very least, it is the only thing that I have experienced at this point of my life that has made me feel this way.

What better way is there to embrace the uncertain than to voluntarily lock yourself in a ring or cage (in front of thousands of people) with a man who has agreed to do the same? Two souls trapped together in a sea of countless variables and one shared outcome, experience.

I imagine fighting to be something like skydiving or big wave surfing (two things that I would love to experience). You can train two to three times a day, drill specific techniques and situations hundreds of times over and still not know what you will come across. You can run and sprint until your body resembles a granite sculpture rather than flesh, and you can still become the victim of a left hook, a right knee, or rear naked choke.

Because, in a fight, just as in life, there is no such thing as a 'sure thing'. And... during those moments in which all can be won or lost, I feel alive.

That is why I fought... this is why I would love to fight again. Not for money, not for fame, not for a career... it is just something that I love to do. Something that makes me feel alive.