(I wrote this story for WSOF.com (World Series of Fighting). Other reporters read the story, or got wind of the catchy story angle, and over the next few years some of the sport’s biggest media outlets started to emphasize Justin Gaethje’s miner DNA and Mexican roots). By Frank Curreri Forza To put Justin Gaethje’s iron…
Cagefighting is a cakewalk compared to UFC fighter David Branch’s previous job – as an iron worker walking on beams 30-stories high atop the New York skyline. Branch, who grew up in the same Brownsville, NY, neighborhood that produced “Iron” Mike Tyson, once witnessed an iron worker colleague – working on a beam 24-stories high…
Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on WSOF.com (Jan. 31, 2014) By Frank Forza More than a decade ago Jessica Aguilar left Houston for Hollywood. Her acting ambitions didn’t pan out quite the way Aguilar had expected, but film directors in Tinseltown would do well to reconsider the spunky 31-year-old Latina whose life is…
