Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
UFC Fighter Caught Smuggling, Locked Up Abroad, & Fighting for His Life | Ian Heinisch
06 May 2025
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Colombia, Venezuela, Aruba. We would package the kilos. We'd swallow them. Turning $900 into $100,000. They jumped on us. Secret police. I get thrown in general population. God started to call on me and put this dream in my heart. He's like, you're going to get out of here and be a UFC champ. Proclaim my name to the world. Came up in a middle to upper class.
Nothing like a crazy bad childhood like most people would think when you have a crazy story, you know? Um, some people go through some crazy adversity, but I just, man, got in trouble all the time. I had this crazy energy inside of me. And at a very young age, I started to get kicked out of class, just little stuff. My parents didn't know what to do.
So they took me to little stuff like fights or, or just fights, ditching class. And just like hyper, like I was just messing with people all the time, just like this crazy. So they took me to the doctor and the doctor said, you know, he's got ADD, ADHD, right? Put them on pills.
And I come from a long line of addiction, like my dad, my uncles, my cousins, like all struggle with addiction, alcoholism, like generational curses. So instantly hooked, lost my relationship with God and just went all in on partying, man. And still was a very successful wrestler, a couple of times state champ, national champ, all American.
You know, I was doing my thing in wrestling and had a very bright future. I was I remember I'd be cheating off these like super smart girls and then they would call my name and they'd be all mad at me. And I'd get a letter from like Stanford, handwritten letter. We want to give you a full ride scholarship.
And they are just like losing their mind because, you know, wrestling was getting me some big opportunities, but I blew it. I got expelled my senior year. A year before that, I was driving home from a party before a wrestling tournament, drank a couple bottles of Southern Comfort, fell asleep behind the wheel, drove off the road, missed a sign by inches and a telephone post by a couple feet.
And that was one of many times that God had spared my life. I woke up with the tires still spinning, drove off the bank in the snow. I mean, is this like you got a DUI? I just took off running. Oh, okay. Well, how'd you get expelled? Called the car and stolen. What? You said you got expelled your senior year. I thought that was it.
Fights in school. basically ditching a lot of class drugs and then um I I drew it was a stupid reason to be honest I drove my dad's truck to school his roofing truck and they searched me for drugs and they found a big knife and you know it was kind of when things are starting to get crazy with uh Columbine and so They took that very serious. We fought it to the end.
But then at the end, it was just, I was a habitual offender. My wrestling coach sat me down. He's like, dude, there's nothing I can do. And he was a good man, Tim Ottman. And I was like, I don't know. He's like, you're expelled, bro. I left the school, just started partying full-time, training a little bit. And I made my way to senior nationals.
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