Mike Maxwell

He squeezed me so fucking hard, it felt like my ribs were going to come out of my mouth.

Oh, God.

And, you know, I was like a blue belt, maybe still a white belt, and I tapped to side control.

That's crazy.

And I started to think, well, what if he was fucking punching me, too?

Well, also, he's way bigger than you.

No, he was fucking massive.

Yeah, he's way bigger than you.

The amount of pressure, if you're a really big person, you put down on a small person, it's really kind of unbearable.

But even somebody who's my same weight or whatever, I'm fucking wrapped up, and if this person wanted to, they could end me right now.

Oh, yeah, that was always the most eye-opening to me when I would roll with guys who are 30, 40 pounds lighter than me, and they just fuck me up.

And immediately I was like, I never want to act tough in public again, ever.

Like that fear of like, if somebody, I got in, there was a guy who was, I was in like a time period where I was partying a lot.

This guy was just being a dick to a bunch of people, said something shitty to my friend and I'm trying to walk away.

And it just like, my brain was just like, say something.

And I was just like, why are you being a fucking dick?

Like, you know, and he puffed up and started coming at me and like he like swiped something out of my hand and immediately my instincts kicked into jujitsu.

I grabbed he had like a like a like a flannel on.

I grabbed his collar like a lapel and I grabbed his wrist and just like immediately I was just going to throw him.

And then like the other voice in my head is like, the guy had a dog actually who wasn't on leash.