Hawaiian favorite Yancy Medeiros returns to action at Bellator San Diego this Saturday, but despite an extended stint on the sidelines, little has changed for the lightweight.
“Same sh*t different toilet, bro. It’s always mission, there’s an objective to get done.
I’m just fortunate and glad that I can keep doing this,” Medeiros (16-8, 2NC), a UFC vet, told Cageside Press in a recent exclusive interview. “Regardless, I had a couple fights get cancelled through the year, and everything happened how it was supposed to happened and I’m just glad where I’m at right now, today. Happy that next week, Saturday I’ll be fighting and getting it done. That’s the biggest thing. Because out of everything that happened this year, it lined up how it was supposed to. Life is life, bro.”
Saturday’s fight in San Diego sees Yancy Medeiros take on the little-known Jora Ayvazyan. If you’re wondering why he feels things have worked out as planned, well, Medeiros will actually be fighting on his birthday, September 7.
As to what has kept him motivated over the past year and then some, “I just got a kid!” Medeiros exclaimed with a laugh. “I got a kid in March. That was inspiring as hell right there. I just came from realizing that, I still get to do what I want to do. I’m going to fight on mu birthday next week. I’m going to be 37 and still get to do what I want to do, and still get to do it with a family that loves me, and I can come home to my newborn and still do what I like to do. I’m not having a job that I have to do to support my kids.”
Medeiros knows that he could just as easily have the sort of job that would require him to turn up at an office day in and day out. Instead, he’s living his dream, something he credits his family for facilitating.
“I’m so happy. We all know how to work hard and make money, we all know how to do that. but to do what you want to do in life and be happy, you know what I’m saying? That’s something that I realized wow, I’ve got a freaking good-ass family that holds it down for me, treats me like a king, and I can still do what I want to do.”
Watch our full interview with Bellator San Diego’s Yancy Medeiros above.
