Who knows how long that championship belt will stay perched on the shelf blending in with the gallon jug, disinfectant wipes, boxing gloves and other personal gym equipment.
One thing is for certain – the belt’s owner, Derik Overstreet, isn’t about to move it. He could care less where it ends up, preferably to fade in the background with other medals and nostalgia tacked on the walls of Donny Wallace’s HICS MMA gym.
Overstreet is laser-focused on the present unlike anyone Wallace has ever trained. This 6-foot-2, 220-pound ex-defensive end doesn’t miss the business side or responsibilities he used to own in his former life captaining Western Kentucky’s football team.