“I’m blaming this guy for putting my daughter in the intensive care unit.” No, these are not the deranged ramblings of a man disconnected from reality. This was how UFC fighter Nathaniel Wood got in the frame of mind to do his job when his newborn, with a hole in her heart, was fighting for her life.
“I’m very good at using my weaknesses to my strengths,” he tells The Independent, reflecting on the switch he had to flip to prepare for a bout against Daniel Pineda in July of last year. “My daughter was only a couple of months born and she was in an intensive care unit, had a lot of health complications. So I flipped it and took it out on him. I said to myself that whole fight camp that he’s the reason she’s dealing with this.”
