Former Olympian Rick Hawn (5-0) reached a conclusion that’s well-known
to many international competitors: you can’t eat gold medals.
With that in mind, the 33-year-old Hawn, who faces Tom Gallicchio
tonight in the main event of World Championship Fighting 9 in Wilmington, Mass., scrambled
to fulfill a long-held dream of fighting in mixed martial arts and
competed in his first fight within six months of picking up a
four-ounce glove.
“I don’t want to get caught up as just a grappler, because that makes
you one-dimensional and easy to figure out,” Hawn recently told MMAjunkie.com.