UFC debutant, Dave Dvorak, has gone from checkmating opponents on the chess board to finishing his adversaries inside the cage.
Making the move from professional chess player to MMA fighter isn’t the most common approach to entering the fight game, but it’s one which worked out perfectly for the Czech competitor. Dvorak (17-3) used to play chess in the very same building where there was an MMA gym, so thought he would try out the more physically demanding sport to see what it was like. From the minute he jumped into a class, Dvorak fell in love with the different martial arts and hasn’t looked back since.