5/1/2023 0 Comments Kimbo slice back yard koRey continued putting in his time working security. Jorge would eventually become a mainstay at the pinnacle of the MMA world. I had other things going on so I basically kind of shied away from it.” “You get injured a lot during training and it just didn’t weigh out to me, money-wise. “I took it to the pro level I just didn’t continue doing it,” Fuentes explained. His American Kempo background, love for fighting and love for money was all coming together but still, all good things must come to an end. On film fights, Fuentes now stood at 10-2, professional fights, 1-0. I was there a year and a half and not too many people know I went pro, but I did fight at the Hard Rock at Rock n’ Rumble.”įuentes led off the card that would also serve as Dada 5000’s MMA debut with a TKO finish in the first round. “I started training with American Top Team. “After I fought Jorge the second time, I actually got into training a bit more seriously and I basically ran through the next two guys,” Fuentes said. It could only get better from here.įights started going so well that working for the ICE and at a South Beach club was now also splitting time with a fight career. For $500, he fought a man who would headline UFC London, steal the show at UFC 239 with a record setting knockout and fight for the BMF title in the main event of UFC 244. The man who reached heights higher than even Kimbo Slice, himself was dropped in front of him as if he was just another man. Masvidal was a fight away from a Strikeforce debut and had already notched four TKO/KO finishes but never landed one on Fuentes.įuentes felt the full wrath of a professional mixed martial artist in those fights. I definitely was out of shape, dude.”įuentes came up short twice against Masvidal. I think that if I had better conditioning things would have worked out differently. My conditioning was definitely nowhere near where it should have been to fight a person like that. “The thing that made me give up in that second fight was the same thing that made me give up in that first fight,” Fuentes said. The gas tank was beginning to empty and with every missed punch, he was bogging down. When Masvidal stood back up after a few extra seconds on the ground, Fuentes saw the beginning of the end. Fuentes gave Masvidal a different fight than he saw the first time even knocking him down at one point. Even when the stakes are low, Fuentes saw an obstacle in front of him he knew he could overcome.įight day came, Jorge walked into the backyard with hands wrapped and the ponytail in. For the next two months it was work all day, train in the afternoon. Rey held a rare, structured fight camp for his rematch with Masvidal. With no knowledge of Masvidal’s established fight career with multiple wins in multiple promotions, Fuentes gladly took a rematch with Masvidal this time with a little more motivation. It was Fuentes’ first organized fight loss. There was no danger of a knockout, no leaking cuts, just an empty gas tank. At the time, Masvidal had already had a handful of sanctioned MMA fights and with success already to his name, odds were stacked against any opponent in the concrete Octagon.įuentes found himself circling away, eating punches and landing some of his own but was outclassed until endurance caught up and the fight was called. However, that day, in his second fight, his best was not quite good enough when Fuentes found himself going toe to toe with a kid in baggy jean shorts, high top Nikes and a ponytail named Jorge Masvidal. In fact, online, there still lives footage of “Ray” taking out one man and then another with relative ease. Showing up mentally prepared to fight two people was a good start and nothing Fuentes hadn’t done before.
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