![]() And hey, he is going back to Harding University for his Economics degree in the fall, and he only has 15 hours left, so he is listening to his mom about the importance of an education. She should, as Mitchell is already garnering a fan following to go along with his obvious talent. It’s pretty funny, but she’s actually been watching the show.” He gets a thrill out of watching me and I get a thrill out of him being there. He comes to all my fights and if I get a win, sometimes I’ll go up to him and it looks like he’s got tears in his eyes. “My mom, she won’t watch at all,” Mitchell said. And no, mom still doesn’t watch her son fight, but he has caught her watching TUF this season. “She is, you ain’t kidding,” laughs Mitchell.Īnd while his mother called his coach the next day, saying she didn’t mean to sign the permission slip, he got his fight and the rest is history. Sounds like we found the real fighter in the family.ĭon't Miss Any Content From The Return Of The Ultimate Fighter You give me that paper right now and I’ll sign it and I hope you do get your ass whupped.’” ![]() But she got so mad at me, she said, ‘You know what, Bryce? You need discipline. My grades were fine, she’s just real picky. “Then we got into a fight over grades because she told me my grades were slipping. “I couldn’t get her to sign the papers,” Mitchell recalled. His mom didn’t care for the sport and Mitchell needed her to sign a permission slip because he was 17. Soon, though, the training got more serious and Mitchell wanted to test himself in a real MMA fight. It’s the best thing that ever happened for me.” But I’d have been a fool to turn it down. (Laughs) We beat the piss out of each other. It might not have been the best way, because it was hard as s**t. So when you have that opportunity (to go on TUF) there, I took it for my family, to better myself. I’m in the middle of Arkansas, so I don’t know if they’re gonna call me or not. You don’t know if they’re gonna call you. “But man, it’s hard when you don’t really know for sure. “If you look at it rationally, that’s the course that I was on,” he said of continuing to build his record until getting called up to the big show. TUF Moments: Cody vs TJ Coaches Challenge | Free TUF Fight: Scott Smith vs Pete Sell Yet despite 14 amateur fights and a 9-0 pro record, Mitchell was on the fence when it came to staying on the regional circuit and waiting for the UFC, or taking matters into his own hands by competing for a contract on The Ultimate Fighter: Undefeated. At just 23 years old, Bryce Mitchell has done everything he’s needed to do to get a call from the UFC.
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