Di Chirico: 'A fighter is a normal person with an abnormal will'

Alessia Di Chirico kicks Garreth McLellan during their bout last AugustMeryl Streep probably didn’t expect a firestorm like this. But when the award-winning actress took the stage at the Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 8 and said, “So Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. And if we kick them all out you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts,” the MMA community came out in force to defend their sport.

But it was an Italian mixed martial artist who also played American football back home in Rome that addressed the comments the best.

“Meryl Streep made a great speech during the Golden Globe ceremony, but I think she got carried away when…