“I never shake ‘em off,” he said. “I’ve never shaken off a loss. You carry every loss with you if you care about it. You just find different ways to kind of exist with it, but I don’t think it’s ever anything I really shake off. You try to focus on the good, but you always focus on things that went wrong. And if you do everything right, sometimes it still goes wrong. And you always carry that. So I wish I was able to shake it off. Those people live in a world that I envy.”
Well, having Chris Curtis in here does make the MMA world better, whether he believes it or not, and if not for some twists of fate, he might have been making his living with the big gloves as a boxer.
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“Boxing’s my first love,” he said. “I follow boxing more than I do MMA, still. It’s my favorite sport and the thing that really got me heavy into combat sports. I love the science of it, and it’s something that’s just beautiful to me.”
But when his first coach, who happened to be an ex-boxer, found them an MMA gym that they could work out at, Curtis began to move in a new direction that he follows to this day.
