“I’m a single Dad with 100% full custody of my little girl – and she’s my entire reason for living,” whispered Ivey in an interview with BR. “She’s with me 24-hours-a-day, 365 days a year. Me and her are tag-team partners for life… and we wouldn’t want it any other way. See, I know some people think that standing inside an MMA cage and trading bombs with a heavyweight warrior is scary stuff. But that ain’t nothin’. What’s truly scary is contemplating a future where Savannah is trapped in poverty, stuck in a minimum wage hell for the rest of her life. These kinds of thoughts chill my soul… and at least once a week, I wake up in the dead of night, imagining a world that robs her of her happiness and childhood innocence. As God is my witness, I will never – ever – let that happen. You just don’t understand the rage a single father feels when he knows that the only thing standing in the way of a better life for his baby girl is that opponent standing before him. It makes you want to just smash his skull in.”
Here’s Johnathan Ivey with an incredible evasive maneuver to keep food on his daughter’s table.
Here he is in there against Shamrock, we’ve included the full video of the fight on the next page.
The champ is here!
Bonus: There’s a terrible rap song about him, too…
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