McCall: This job is killing us
Ian McCall: “This job is killing us. Realistically, this job is ruining the one vehicle we have — our bodies and our brains. It’s killing me.”
The life of most professional athletes is plagued with injuries and setbacks, but maybe even more so in professional mixed martial arts. Flyweight Ian McCall knows the toll the sport can take on you, but it’s what he signed up for:
“It could be worse. I could have an office job and want to kill myself. It could be a lot worse,” McCall said. “This job is killing us. Realistically, this job is ruining the one vehicle we have — our bodies and our brains. It’s killing me. It’s killing all of us, but I signed up for it. Just like all these football players. They want to make all these cheesy rules — you can’t hit guys, they can’t hit each other as hard. You signed up for this.
“John Lineker could kill me and I have no problem with that. I could kill him and I have no f–king problem with that either. It’s part of the sport. All of the suffering we put in, the training and everywhere else at home, I don’t get to see my kid as much, the diet, I have to eat vegan food all week and it sucks. It’s not fun. But I do what I love and I get underpaid for it, but I still get paid. It could be worse. I could have a 9 to 5.”