Swirlie: Bullies flushed Dustin Hazelett toward MMA success
by MMAmania.com on Jan 2, 2010 2:48 PM EST
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"I hate to say it, but getting my head shoved in the toilet definitely helped me with martial arts. Just that feeling of being victimized was something I never wanted to deal with again.... I still see [the old bullies]. Usually, they throw it up like we’re friends: ‘Hey, this is Dustin. We grew up together.’.. They really don’t bring up the fact that they bullied me, and it’s probably better for them that they don’t. Being bullied a lot made me strive to be a better martial artist."
Lanky and unassuming UFC welterweight, Dustin Hazelett, talks about how he turned to mixed martial arts as a teenager after being victimized by local bullies. The 23-year-old is now among the most talented Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialists on the promotion's roster, earning his blackbelt from Jorge Gurgel not too long ago. Since his Octagon debut in 2006, "McLovin" has put together a fine record (5-2), catching many of his opponents in super slick submissions. He'll get the opportunity to beat down another bully later tonight when he touches 'em up with the colorful and hard-hitting slugger, Paul "Semtex" Daley, in the UFC 108: "Evans vs. Silva" co main event. Will Daley take Hazelett for a walk down bad memory lane or will the now dangerous Ohioan once again have the last laugh?
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A High School bully also got me started in martial arts
It was funny how the group of bullies stopped picking on me as soon as they found out I was studying Karate, even before I knew anything! I wonder how many other martial artists got started for the same reason?
Now make like a tree and get outta here.
Brock currently is the best. I will not deny that. -- Daniel Worby
I heard Tom Wilson, the bully in the picture above, on the radio a few years ago...
He is a stand-up comedian and is hilarious.
Who's arm is he holding?
I remember the kid with the 3-D glasses, but who is Biff holding?
Frank Mir packed 30+ pounds of solid muscle onto his body in five months. Why hasn't anyone called him out for steroid use? Is it because he never wrestled for Vince McMahon? I give Mir credit for his taste in strippers/wives, not his fighting skills or his personality.
What?
This isn’t from BTTF. It looks like it, but I don’t recognize the characters. Is this a shopped picture?
Frank Mir packed 30+ pounds of solid muscle onto his body in five months. Why hasn't anyone called him out for steroid use? Is it because he never wrestled for Vince McMahon? I give Mir credit for his taste in strippers/wives, not his fighting skills or his personality.
Looks like Biff to me...
Whatever the fuck you do in life, echoes in eternity! <----slightly edited
-Maximus[Gladiator]
Biff is right, The guy who's arm he is holding is wrong
Frank Mir packed 30+ pounds of solid muscle onto his body in five months. Why hasn't anyone called him out for steroid use? Is it because he never wrestled for Vince McMahon? I give Mir credit for his taste in strippers/wives, not his fighting skills or his personality.
McLovin the future
I am a huge fan of Dustin. His BJJ is unreal and people forget he probably should have beat Kos in that fight. He hit Kos with a hard flying knee that should have knocked him out.. I think he is going to win this fight against Daley fairly easy and continue to move up the latter. I know people hate Jake Shields and personally I do to since he is a prick and rally not that good imo but I want to see him fighting at WW in the UFC to really challenge himself against Fitch, Alves, Kos, Swick, Hardy, McLovin etc…
Wondered if anyone else remembered
I say that because in the UFC countdown thing they didn’t talk about it.
"He hit Kos with a hard flying knee that should have knocked him out.."
I laughed at this! so he landed it and DIDN’T knock him out, but he should have?
Did you see the fight?
It almost took Kos’ head off but bein’ the competitor that he is he(kos) recovered and won.
LOL
What’s not to understand?
Frank Mir packed 30+ pounds of solid muscle onto his body in five months. Why hasn't anyone called him out for steroid use? Is it because he never wrestled for Vince McMahon? I give Mir credit for his taste in strippers/wives, not his fighting skills or his personality.
Alpha
I don’t remember those actors in that movie. I thought Biff was holding Micheal J. Fox in this picture? Who the hell is that dude with Biff?
Frank Mir packed 30+ pounds of solid muscle onto his body in five months. Why hasn't anyone called him out for steroid use? Is it because he never wrestled for Vince McMahon? I give Mir credit for his taste in strippers/wives, not his fighting skills or his personality.
Listen to your friend Billy Zane.
He’s a cool dude.
Am fairly confident that McLovin’ takes this one. Kos is top-notch, I dont think Daley could hang with him like Dustin did, and I’m sure he has only gotten better since then.
Oh yeah, I knew that was Zane, still with all the hair, LOL
Whatever the fuck you do in life, echoes in eternity! <----slightly edited
-Maximus[Gladiator]
lmao
you’re too much Alpha!
I was trying to give this douche an analogy, but how the fuck can a knee that landed perfect and rocked him, “supposed to knock him out?” now a more proper statement is “that knee would’ve knocked out most competitors,” that actually makes sense!
Well I guess if more effort was exerted, that should've knocked 'em out!
Whatever the fuck you do in life, echoes in eternity! <----slightly edited
-Maximus[Gladiator]
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