Sep 13, 2021
When Dominick Nusdeu first discovered Brazilian jiu-jitsu in 1993 — the same year the UFC began — he’d never seen anything like it.
A teenager whose mother wouldn’t allow him to play “aggressive” sports like football and hockey, he saw in jiu-jitsu an outlet for physical combat. But he saw something else,...
Sep 6, 2021
Before becoming a serial entrepreneur, Billy Batt worked in the oil fields, and before that, he was a teen runaway. Having left home at 13, Billy learned his way around the streets at a young age, sleeping outside in the Canadian winter and eventually joining a gang. He was selling, and doing, his share of drugs and...