Reece McEwan is topping the bill at an event at Braehead Arena on Saturday.
A top Scots cage fighter has told how a teenage bullying ordeal turned him into a fierce warrior in the ring. Reece McEwan, 29, has become one of Europe’s highest rated Mixed Martial Arts fighters and is tipped to win a world title belt.
Speaking before Saturday’s bout Reece told the Daily Record: "I was tiny – only five foot two – super thin, timid and an insecure boy with little confidence. I first heard of MMA when I used to stay up till 3am to watch a reality TV show, called Ultimate Fighter. "It was at this point that my friends came running over and jumped in to protect me. I was so embarrassed and when I got back home I remembered watching The Ultimate Fighter TV show and decided I was going to join an MMA gym to make sure I was never going to let that happen to me again. I didn’t want to have to rely on my friends to get me out of situations like that and if they needed help I wanted to be able to help them.
The traumatised teenager joined the Griphouse martial arts gym in Glasgow to learn MMA. He started competing and moved through the amateur ranks to become the Number One amateur bantamweight in the UK and Ireland. He is also a young persons ambassador for a suicide prevention charity called Man On Inverclyde. As well as MMA cage fighting, Reece has had two K1 kickboxing knockout wins and is a black belt in the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial art.
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