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At 21 years old, Josh Grispi is a grizzled veteran with big wins on his record, a horrific injury in his past and now, he hopes, a stirring comeback story.
The kid they call “The Fluke” actually began his career as a kid. As in, he was underage. He was 17 and determined, so he fudged the truth a little bit about the nature of the competition, got a parent’s signature and went off to chase a dream.
It was during his 18th birthday when everything started going wrong and right. He was legal now, so nothing could stop him from fighting (and that’s exactly what he was doing on his 18th birthday), but it was also the day that his right ankle suffered an injury from a misdirected kick. Over the next three years, it would get progressively worse, to the point that when he finally had a thorough exam, his doctors recoiled in horror.
“How are you even walking right now?” one doctor asked.