While Hawaiian Brad Tavares never had any formal
martial arts training as a child, it probably shouldn’t have been a
surprise that he would one day turn to MMA.
After all, if you’re going to fight, you might as well get paid for it.
“I first started fighting on the streets,” Tavares told MMAjunkie.com. “Being in Hawaiii you fight a lot. I used to get
into a lot of street fights, and I knew soon I would get into trouble,
arrested, or really hurt somebody. I figured, ‘I love fighting; I might
as well get paid for it, train hard and make something of it.'”