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Working-class fighter gives win bonus to opponent who needed it more
Awaiting the post-fight ring announcement, Castaneda sidled over to McLaren. He’d had a pre-fight chat with Cruz, who thanked him for taking the fight. He’d learned a little about Cruz’s family.
He saw the difficult situation Cruz was in, fighting because he needed the money.
And so, McLaren said, Castaneda leaned in and whispered to him, “Give Cruz my bonus.”
It was a remarkable act of selflessness because Castaneda himself isn’t getting rich by fighting and he moonlights as a trainer at Lifetime Fitness to help supplement his income.
Castaneda almost sounded embarrassed when asked about it. McLaren said he became emotional.
“It really choked me up,” he said. “I’d never encountered anything like that. MMA is a very charitable sport and you see fighters starting GoFund Me pages to help each other a lot. But this was a little different situation and it was so impressive. This came in the heat of the battle after a very tough fight.”
Castaneda, who graduated from Minnesota State in Mankato, Minn., with a double major and degrees in criminal law and Spanish and interviewed for a government job as a Spanish analytic linguist, said giving the bonus to Cruz was the right thing to do.
“After the weigh-in, he stopped me and thanked me for taking the fight, and he said if I hadn’t taken it, the fight probably wouldn’t have happened,” Castaneda said. “He told me without the fight, ‘I couldn’t feed my family.’ That really hit home to me. This is real. This is life. He’s doing this because he has to in order to support his family.
“I met his kids, two little girls, and they were so cute. This was an extra fight for me and I wasn’t expecting this money. And so when I got the finish, I told Campbell that I could do without it and to give it to [Cruz].”
It’s not often anything like that happens, but it’s one of the many things that makes MMA unique among sports.
https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/wo...to-opponent-who-needed-it-more-200702194.html
Awaiting the post-fight ring announcement, Castaneda sidled over to McLaren. He’d had a pre-fight chat with Cruz, who thanked him for taking the fight. He’d learned a little about Cruz’s family.
He saw the difficult situation Cruz was in, fighting because he needed the money.
And so, McLaren said, Castaneda leaned in and whispered to him, “Give Cruz my bonus.”
It was a remarkable act of selflessness because Castaneda himself isn’t getting rich by fighting and he moonlights as a trainer at Lifetime Fitness to help supplement his income.
Castaneda almost sounded embarrassed when asked about it. McLaren said he became emotional.
“It really choked me up,” he said. “I’d never encountered anything like that. MMA is a very charitable sport and you see fighters starting GoFund Me pages to help each other a lot. But this was a little different situation and it was so impressive. This came in the heat of the battle after a very tough fight.”
Castaneda, who graduated from Minnesota State in Mankato, Minn., with a double major and degrees in criminal law and Spanish and interviewed for a government job as a Spanish analytic linguist, said giving the bonus to Cruz was the right thing to do.
“After the weigh-in, he stopped me and thanked me for taking the fight, and he said if I hadn’t taken it, the fight probably wouldn’t have happened,” Castaneda said. “He told me without the fight, ‘I couldn’t feed my family.’ That really hit home to me. This is real. This is life. He’s doing this because he has to in order to support his family.
“I met his kids, two little girls, and they were so cute. This was an extra fight for me and I wasn’t expecting this money. And so when I got the finish, I told Campbell that I could do without it and to give it to [Cruz].”
It’s not often anything like that happens, but it’s one of the many things that makes MMA unique among sports.
https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/wo...to-opponent-who-needed-it-more-200702194.html
Speaking of such. How do they do it on getting 2000 view-hits 2 minutes after a post?. 9 views then it goes to 600 in seconds Hmmmmmm
He must be related to God.
What you talking about Bubba?.
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:good::good:Working-class fighter gives win bonus to opponent who needed it more
Awaiting the post-fight ring announcement, Castaneda sidled over to McLaren. He’d had a pre-fight chat with Cruz, who thanked him for taking the fight. He’d learned a little about Cruz’s family.
He saw the difficult situation Cruz was in, fighting because he needed the money.
And so, McLaren said, Castaneda leaned in and whispered to him, “Give Cruz my bonus.”
It was a remarkable act of selflessness because Castaneda himself isn’t getting rich by fighting and he moonlights as a trainer at Lifetime Fitness to help supplement his income.
Castaneda almost sounded embarrassed when asked about it. McLaren said he became emotional.
“It really choked me up,” he said. “I’d never encountered anything like that. MMA is a very charitable sport and you see fighters starting GoFund Me pages to help each other a lot. But this was a little different situation and it was so impressive. This came in the heat of the battle after a very tough fight.”
Castaneda, who graduated from Minnesota State in Mankato, Minn., with a double major and degrees in criminal law and Spanish and interviewed for a government job as a Spanish analytic linguist, said giving the bonus to Cruz was the right thing to do.
“After the weigh-in, he stopped me and thanked me for taking the fight, and he said if I hadn’t taken it, the fight probably wouldn’t have happened,” Castaneda said. “He told me without the fight, ‘I couldn’t feed my family.’ That really hit home to me. This is real. This is life. He’s doing this because he has to in order to support his family.
“I met his kids, two little girls, and they were so cute. This was an extra fight for me and I wasn’t expecting this money. And so when I got the finish, I told Campbell that I could do without it and to give it to [Cruz].”
It’s not often anything like that happens, but it’s one of the many things that makes MMA unique among sports.
https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/wo...to-opponent-who-needed-it-more-200702194.html
[h=1]‘Cat man of Aleppo’ stays in Syria to look after pets left behind[/h]
Millions of people have been forced to flee their homes in Syria. But what happens to their pets?
Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel, also known as ‘the cat man of Aleppo’, has taken in more than a hundred stray and abandoned cats.
Many of these kitties had to be left behind when their owners fled the country’s civil war.
Speaking to BBC’s Panorama for their special ‘Life Under Siege’ programme, Mohammad said: ‘Some people just left them with me knowing that I love cats.’
Before the war Mohammad was an electrician. However, since the lengthy conflict erupted he has driven ambulances in the city, rescuing people in need.
He also runs the cat sanctuary – and despite taking in just 20 cats in 2011, a year later there were more than a hundred in his care.
https://metro.co.uk/2016/09/27/cat-...syria-to-look-after-pets-left-behind-6155745/
Millions of people have been forced to flee their homes in Syria. But what happens to their pets?
Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel, also known as ‘the cat man of Aleppo’, has taken in more than a hundred stray and abandoned cats.
Many of these kitties had to be left behind when their owners fled the country’s civil war.
Speaking to BBC’s Panorama for their special ‘Life Under Siege’ programme, Mohammad said: ‘Some people just left them with me knowing that I love cats.’
Before the war Mohammad was an electrician. However, since the lengthy conflict erupted he has driven ambulances in the city, rescuing people in need.
He also runs the cat sanctuary – and despite taking in just 20 cats in 2011, a year later there were more than a hundred in his care.
https://metro.co.uk/2016/09/27/cat-...syria-to-look-after-pets-left-behind-6155745/
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