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Who are mixed martial artists? A group of men and women punching each other for money. But who are they once they get home, or who were they before?<\/p>\n

They might have been a math teacher, a real estate agent, a model, an office worker. They also might be a drug dealer. That’s the story of Walter Pugliesi.<\/p>\n

Pugliesi was born in September 1993, in Milan, Italy, in a struggling family situation. His parents, both very young, in their twenties, were addicted to drugs, and Walter ended up in a foster family for four years, while they were rehabbing.<\/p>\n

Eventually, he came back to his parents.<\/p>\n

“Coming back home is one of the sweetest memories I have. It was the happiest time of my childhood,” Walter Pugliesi told BJPENN.com. “It didn’t last, though. Things between them got ugly. They started arguing every day, there constantly were bad vibes, I couldn’t take it anymore. Finally, they divorced when I was 14. That upset me a lot. It was downhill from then on.”<\/p>\n

“It began with some weed smoked with my friends, but soon it got worse. I started robbing and stealing from other teenagers. At 15 I was arrested for the first time, along with one of my best friends. He died some years later in Brazil, due to an overdose.”<\/p>\n

The Italian fighter, was then brought to Milan’s juvenile detention center, just to be moved three days later into a treatment center.<\/p>\n

“I spent two years and three months in rehab. I used to cause a lot of troubles, so they moved me from one center to another. The third [rehabbing center] was hell. There were adults too, there. Junkies and criminals of any kind. I couldn’t trust anyone.”<\/p>\n

Once he’d served his time, Pugliesi was angrier, outraged. He moved from weed to synthetic drugs and cocaine and started to sell those too. The Milan-based athlete was then arrested for a second time, with the accusations of drug dealing and possession of an illegal firearm. He spent one and a half months behind bars.<\/p>\n

“After my second jail time, I started working in a restaurant and wanted to get clean once for all. The secret is to accept you reached the very bottom and find a reason to climb back up. I remember I locked myself in my room, spending hours, days, staring at the ceiling. I can’t forget the sense of emptiness. I was apathetic, emotionless, I felt like I was a dead person. It was horrible, but I made it.”<\/p>\n

Even when he was sober, troubles continued to find a way to reach Walter Pugliesi, though.<\/p>\n

“I remember this cokehead. He was completely out of his mind and was trying to smash my head with his buckle,” Walter Pugliesi recalled. “I stabbed him in the chest with a knife. I was already sober, but I had to defend myself. I learned my lesson the hard way, years before, spending ten days in the hospital due to maxillofacial surgery. I had no intention to come back there.”<\/p>\n

Mixed martial arts were Pugliesi’s turning point. When he was 20, “Kraken” commenced training every day and stayed away from trouble.<\/p>\n

“I think I’ve just replaced drugs with mixed martial arts. A thing strong enough to keep me away from another as strong.”<\/p>\n

“I’m a man now. I recently got a house with my girlfriend and her two-year-old boy, Ercole. The kid needed a dad and I was more than happy accepting that role. I love them both very much. My parents are fine now and we’re cool now; we moved on. My grandparents help me a lot chasing my dream since day one; they taught me how to love. I’m now trying to make a name for myself, trying to gain respect not just as the tattooed guy on social media, but as a professional fighter. Thanks to my MMA Atletica Boxe team and my coach, Garcia Amadori, every day I’m one step closer to it. I sure started this game called life with the worst hand, but I chose how to play and now I have better cards.”<\/p>\n

The Bellator veteran returns to the cage on September 5 at EMC 5<\/a>, in Dusseldorf, Germany, against Konrad Dyrschka. It’s going to be Pugliesi’s second time on Teutonic soil, as he competed at NOVA FC’s first event, being TKO’d in round 1.<\/p>\n

“I think I was still green, inexperienced. I came from a loss against [Andrea] Fusi in Bellator, from the worst weight cut, which forced me to go up from welterweight to middleweight. [Jan] Zander was way bigger than me, he even missed the middleweight limit by 6 pounds and the fight day was even heavier. The real issues, though, were my insecurities. If you’re not at 100% inside the cage, you end up bad. That loss taught me a lot. I fixed my issues, came back under the 170-pound limit and got my revenge in Bellator against [Andrea] Fusi. I know Zander dropped to welterweight, as well. I’d love to rematch the guy, one day.”<\/p>\n

“My next opponent, Konrad Dyrschka, is very young and has good cardio,” Pugliesi explained. “I think he’ll try to use it, thinking he has [better cardio]. We also noticed he’s very aggressive during ground-and-pound and has good grappling skills. I’ll strike hard and clean. I won’t lose any chance to finish him, knockout or submission, it doesn’t matter. I’m ready.”<\/p>\n

Walter Pugliesi knows that with an impressive performance he could draw Bellator’s attention once again, since Scott Coker’s promotion is willing to host multiple events<\/a> in Kraken’s backyard later this fall.<\/p>\n

“I heard they are coming back and I vividly hope there’s room for me too. I’ll take the match even if it’s a few days after my EMC fight. Italy or abroad, I don’t care,” Pugliesi concluded.<\/p>\n

Walter Pugliesi squares off with Konrad Dyrschka on September 5, in Dusseldorf, Germany at the fifth Elite MMA Championship event. The show also features a welterweight Grand Prix with former UFC fighter Ismail Naurdiev, among the other. Heavyweight behemoths Satoshi Ishii and Stuart Austin will be the headliners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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