When Travis Clark first stepped into a gym for the baby steps of an MMA career, he did so mostly because he was angry.
The Ohio native had divorced recently, and it was a sour breakup. He had come off spending the better part of a year in a wheelchair after tearing up a leg so bad in a dirt-bike jumping accident that doctors told his mother they might have to amputate his foot.
His destructive behavior was starting to remind him of his father, who he said was abusive to both him and his mother growing up. There were a lot of reasons for Clark to be upset.