Cro Cop Fight Epiphany
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A story about how beating UFC legend Mirko Cro Cop led Brendan Schaub to question his fighting career.
"I knocked out Cro Cop and backstage I went to say 'thank you' or 'good fight.' He had ice on his head and I thought 'What the fuck am I doing? I don't want to do this for my life. I don't want to be 40 or 38 years old' like he was when I beat him up.
I knew it was time to get out when I'd hit the cage and think 'Don't get hurt, get out of here. You got so much more to do in this life, you cannot suffer a concussion. We have got to figure this out.'
The highs are the highest in the world, the peaks are the best, but the valleys are the lowest there can be in professional sports or maybe in life. It's a tough gig. I think the more fighters talk about it being scary, the more people can relate to it."
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.