This is how Gable Stevenson was motivated to go into MMA by Jon Jones and Queen Latifah. Gable Steveson had already achieved what most wrestlers spend their entire careers chasing: an Olympic gold medal.
At just 21 years old, the University of Minnesota standout defeated Georgia’s Geno Petriashvili 10-8 in the final with a dramatic takedown as time expired, then celebrated with his signature backflip. By conventional measures, Steveson’s wrestling journey had reached its peak. But watching another superstar in the bright lights of Madison Square Garden would reignite an ambition he’d been quietly harboring since he was a teenager.