Brendan Allen

I start crying.

I mean, like smack.

And it was just like, I couldn't open my mouth and

You know, one of my best friends who was with me, like I started with him, was Kurt Hollibaugh.

And him and Dustin Poirier were the two biggest where we were from at that time.

So I remember Tim Crater reached out to Kurt.

Crazy Tim.

Yeah.

And he was like, hey, why don't y'all come spar?

We got Dustin.

I think Dustin was just about to go to WEC or he was right around there at that time.

So we're like, let's go.

Kurt's like, hey, you want to go?

Yeah, let's go.

So we go over there for sparring.

And I'm sparring this guy, man.

He had to be like.

five foot one like he was tiny short and uh kurt goes with dustin and i'm sitting here trying to watch them go because i mean they're throwing they're fighting they're not sparring and this guy's hitting me i'm like get off me like trying to watch and the same day like so we sparred like i don't know four or five rounds it was nice and then uh and i'm only like 14 15 years old at this time

And then it was start on the ground in your guard.

And I go with Dustin because everyone said my jiu-jitsu was good.