Coleman Ruiz

Is someone trying to take your life?

No, they're not.

But it feels that way.

And then you go and you put in all these hours of training and you don't eat during the week and you run stadiums or you run levees and, you know, fireman's carries and all of it.

while you're not eating and making weight and you're in the sauna.

And it's just a very tough thing to do combat sports.

And I love the respect that it engenders between the people who do it.

Yeah, I think that's true.

You know, school, my grades immediately went up, Andrew.

It was like, oh my gosh, the discipline of all of it.

My grades were always better in wrestling season than out of wrestling season.

Interesting.

Like when I was cut loose out of the structure, then it wasn't good.

And, you know, between seventh and eighth grade and all that, I didn't have any crazy shenanigans going on.

I wasn't going to get kicked out of school, whatever.

I was doing normal stuff for the age.

So the fight stopped.

Totally.

Totally, because I could put it into, I could put it into the wrestling space, you know?

And I think, I grew up obviously in New Orleans and I think, you know, down there it's baseball, football, basketball.