Biaggio Ali Walsh: Muhammad Ali’s fighting grandson plots his own course through mixed martial arts | WWE News
His grandfather, Muhammad Ali, was renowned as “the biggest of all time”, but Biaggio Ali Walsh is a different type of fighter.
He pursued a career in mixed martial arts and will participate in the PFL on Friday, but rather than trying to imitate the explosive rhetoric of his grandfather, Ali Walsh takes his development in MMA step by step.
“I entered this sport which wanted to see how far I could go with it,” he said Sky Sports. “So many different martial arts play a role in a fight and I loved the idea that a fight is a fight, you use everything that suits you best.”
Ali Walsh took a little favorable start, starting with a humiliating defeat. “My first fight was for fusion Fight League and it was in Montana,” he recalls. “I fought a very big guy, a big bald guy.
“I dropped it as twice and this guy got up. I heard the Terminator theme song in my head.” I say to myself: “What, this guy is not going”. A difficult fight. I ended up falling back and he ended up choking on me and grabbing my neck.
“But I learned a big lesson that is fighting. Maybe you should breathe when you fight.”
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Ali Walsh scored his fifth consecutive victory by stopping, defeating Ed Davis by TKO in the second round
But that didn’t dissuad him. “If something that made me want to fight even more,” he said. “It was a great experience and I removed a lot and it was my first fight.”
Muhammad Ali died in 2016, before his grandson even planned to fight himself.
“I would like to be able to go back and ask him many more questions now,” said Ali Walsh. “A great man and a great grandfather too.
“But he gave advice to my brother. He told my brother to eat healthy, to do road work and my brother asked him what made a fighter and my grandfather said to him:” Move and dance. It makes a fighter. “”
But he does not expect to reproduce his legendary grandfather in MMA.
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Watch Jake Paul react to Ali Walsh’s KO on Isaiah Figueroa. Muhammad’s grandson won his second PFL victory
“Even stylistically me and my grandfather are completely different. He liked to move and dance around the ring. It was like almost moving poetry. The way I fight, I manifest myself and I seek to strike, so even stylistically me and my grandfather are completely different,” said Ali Walsh.
“You don’t have to do much to knock someone, especially when you wear four ounces of gloves. It is one of my super powers, I think, just being able to touch you and if it’s in the right place, you could fall asleep.
“I’m here to show how I like to fight and I hope everything is fine.”
