Brendan Allen

So luckily he was used to being in hell a little bit too.

You know, my dad's a big man.

So yeah, man, life is crazy.

So when did you start striking?

Well, my dad boxed when he was younger and his grandfather taught him how to box and he was like a...

He did something like won like a Golden Gloves in the military or something back when they had like the boxing gloves that were made of like horse hair.

Yeah.

So he taught my dad to box.

And so my dad boxed in high school.

So he was kind of teaching me a little stuff here and there growing up.

But you know how it is, man.

Who listens to their father?

Now I look back and I'm like, man, I wish I would have listened more.

And I say stuff that he was like, what did I tell you 10 years ago?

But I started striking probably like...

15, maybe 15 and a half, somewhere around there.

But it was all grown men back then, especially like where I came up at.

There was no like beginner's classes or anything like that.

And these guys are 24, 25, 26.

I mean, there's been a couple of times, man, I got hit and I thought my jaw was broken.