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48. Ray Cooper III: Becoming a champion, winning $1,000,000, and his simple lifestyle.
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Ray Cooper III is a Native-Hawaiian professional mixed martial artist from the island of O’ahu. He is a two-time welterweight champion who currently competes in the welterweight division of the Professional Fighters League (PFL). He is also a husband and father of 5 and was a three-time state champion wrestler and two-time O’ahu Interscholastic Association (OIA) champion. This Hawai’i native is the only fighter on the PFL roster to win back-to-back championships and make it to the finals every year since PFL started in 2018 up to 2022. He has the fastest knockout in PFL history at 18 seconds and is the 18th ranked Welterweight in the world according to Fight Matrix. In this episode we talk about growing up getting into fights, his simple lifestyle and training methods, his PFL career, his goal of moving to the UFC, and so much more. Enjoy!
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