Being a professional fighter is hard, but it was especially difficult for Luis Palomino.
Getting beat up, injuries, hard training, low pay, the politics of the fight game, criticism from fans and media, grueling weight cuts, hunger, pain – these are just some of the things fighters have to endure. And yet, paying these dues doesn’t guarantee glory, much less money. It just gets you an entry ticket into the pool where only a selected few will get the chance to call themselves champions before it’s all said and done.
For 42-year-old Palomino, now standing as a two-division champion in the top bareknuckle fighting promotion today, BKFC, success came late. But it did come. And looking back, it’s incredible it even came at all.
