Mark Munoz (13-6) kommer gå sin sista MMA-match mot Luke Barnatt (8-2) på UFC Fight Night 66. Munoz har även sålt sitt gym, Reign Training Center, och pratar om känslorna som kring det.
Munoz beslut att sälja gymmet har mycket att göra med att spendera mer tid med sin familj och göra hans liv mycket enklare.
”I’ve actually sold Reign Training Center, and I’m looking to get into coaching for wrestling again,” sa han. ”For me, my son is going into high school, and my daughter has got two more years of college, and I want to be a dad that leaves a legacy with his children. I want to be able to spend time with them. These past six years have gone by so fast, and I haven’t really gotten to spend time with them. I’ve been spending 12, 13 hours days at the gym, teaching, coaching. And then I’ve been doing a lot of my community work with my anti-bullying campaign, all the while trying to be a husband to a wife and four kids, and then being a UFC on top of that.
”It’s been a hard year as far as injuries, a lot of stress. So I just want to simplify my life.”
Munoz erkänner att det var jobbigt att sälja gymmet då gymmet har hjälot många som Munoz känner.
”It was tough. It was really tough,” he said. ”I actually got emotional. I really got emotional. There was a three-day period of mourning. I helped a lot of people through that gym. People came up to me and said, ‘you saved my life having this gym open.’ Kids that are underprivileged or at risk came to the gym and they found a purpose in their life through the gym”.
”It was tough. It was really for me, but my first service is to my family. To leave a lasting impact on my family first…I’ve got to tend to them first. And the gym was like keeping me away.”
Om några veckor kommer Munoz att gå sin sista MMA-match och kan känner att hans vikt är bra just nu.
I’m doing well man, I’m excited,” he said. ”I had a great practice today here. I’ve got great training partners. My weight is down. I guess, you know about the last weight cut. It was very hard, and usually when you have a hard weight cut it’s probably not a good outcome for me. But hey, my weight’s good. I’m going into this fight ready. I’m prepared. I’ve had a great training camp.”
