Chris Lytle: Firefighter, Boxer, MMA Fighter and Now Bare-Knuckle Pugilist

Former Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight champ Stipe Miocic is famous for competing as a mixed martial artist while working full-time as a firefighter. Of course, he was not the first; years before Miocic was even fighting professionally, there was Chris Lytle. “The whole time I was in the UFC competing I was a full-time firefighter,” Lytle told Sherdog.com. Now, the man who is entering his seventeenth year serving his community as an active firefighter looks to blaze a new path in combat sports as a bare-knuckle fighting competitor. With one fight already under his belt, Lytle will make his stateside debut at Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship’s Aug. 25 card at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi, Mississippi.

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