One night in 2005, Bryan Humes went to bed without a hint of interest in
mixed martial arts.
He had a young family living in Las Vegas with a wife, Victoria, who had
just finished nursing school after pulling him out of a wandering life
in his hometown of DeKalb, Ill. But what he didn’t have a true passion.
“So I woke up one day; it was a Saturday,” Humes said. “There was a
marathon of the first season of ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ on that day. …
Dana White is yelling at them, ‘Do you wanna be a [expletive] fighter?’
So I’m thinking, ‘I should try this. I used to be a good athlete.'”