Trey Waters | Healed Up And Hungry

Things were going just fine for Trey Waters in his May 2024 bout against Billy Ray Goff until they weren’t, and when you tear the ACL and meniscus in your knee and you’ve still got 14 minutes of a fight to go, it has to be panic time. Well, maybe panic time for 99.9% of the population, but for Waters, he didn’t have time to panic, as Goff was trying to punch him in the face.

“Honestly, you don't even have the capacity to think much about it in the fight,” Waters said. “I knew that my knee was unstable, but it was all the way in the back of my mind. You're so focused and so locked in the moment that you don't really even consider it. You notice it, but you don't even really acknowledge it.…