Of all the people who helped Cortez Coleman reach a professional mixed-martial-arts career – his mother who raised five children on her own, his uncles who encouraged him, and the twin fighters he once managed on a whim – perhaps none did more to motivate him than the young students at his first gym.
Because they were embarrassing him.
“The first couple weeks I was getting tapped by the little kids,” the recent Strikeforce winner told MMAjunkie.com.