“When we were in primary school, we all used to say, ‘What would you do for $1m?’” Brendan Loughnane reflects, three weeks after his PFL championship bout with Bubba Jenkins in New York City. “I took that mentality into the fight. For $1m, I was willing to die.”
Never again will Loughnane have to ask himself that question; not in a dark bedroom before falling asleep at night, not in a moment of exhaustion-induced existentialism in between gruelling training sessions, nor in the mental desolation that follows a defeat.
