Coleman Ruiz

Football, baseball, whatever.

I never really liked any of those sports.

I played them all, but I didn't like them.

And always, my dad wrestled in high school and college.

And we were always rough and tumble in that regard.

And

I even have a couple of buddies in the teams who obviously were college wrestlers.

There's a lot of wrestlers in the teams.

And people would always joke about how we're so handsy.

Our hands are always on each other.

And that was just a thing for us.

I loved the close contact.

I loved the fight of it.

What I really love about combat sports, because I boxed in high school between wrestling seasons, was the respect.

Tell me more about that.

You just don't have – there are some, of course.

Like you can see guys hyping it up and doing their thing in UFC these days, and that's totally fine.

But for the most part, if you have fighters of any type like in a setting when they don't have to do the stuff for TV and whatnot –

they respect each other because and they respect the effort and because you know what it takes and you know how hard it is to face another man in the middle of a mat with no equipment and nowhere to run and no timeouts and no one to tap in that's extreme you know and it may not seem like high school wrestling is extreme but

As you just mentioned something about, you know, development when you're 14 and you're facing another, like that's the first time.