My first fight: ‘Mayhem’ Miller
One look at Jason “Mayhem” Miller and you can tell he was probably never the prom type. Just picturing him…
One look at Jason “Mayhem” Miller and you can tell he was probably never the prom type. Just picturing him doing something as normal as pinning a corsage on a date or squeezing into a rented tux seems wrong, like imagining a dog eating with a knife and fork.
That’s why it shouldn’t surprise many fight fans to learn that while his high school classmates were attending the senior prom in April of 1998, a 17-year-old Mayhem was fighting a man named Al “Superman” Dill for $300 cash in Virginia Beach, Va.
His girlfriend at the time? She was in the audience watching, Miller says. And she didn’t even mind missing the prom since, as he puts it, “We were weirdo kids. We weren’t going to the prom, anyway.”
For Miller, this night had been years in the making. He’d wanted to be a fighter ever since he knew it was a real thing people did without going to jail. Maybe he’d seen too many Van Damme movies as a kid, he admits, or maybe he just enjoyed unarmed combat a little too much. So much, in fact, that it got him kicked out of his first high school.
