The results speak for themselves. In two fights with the Syndicate MMA squad, Osbourne is unbeaten, decisioning CJ Vergara and knocking out Zarrukh Adashev. In the process, he’s found a semblance of peace that he didn’t have back in Milwaukee.
“You need peace of mind – that is the key to a successful fight career,” he said. “In my opinion, I think a lot of times when we have a downfall is because we have too many voices, too many people with input, too much peer pressure. So sometimes, being by myself and having my thought process by myself, I’m somebody who doesn’t really like to be told what to do. I like to be coached and taught. I don’t like to be demanded. So people get too comfortable with you, and a lot of demands are made, and the higher up in the rankings you go, things settle in and sometimes it’s just good to get away into the woods.”
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It’s also a good thing to have like-minded individuals around you in the gym that aren’t only chasing the same goals in their professional life, but that also share similar journeys outside the gym. Osbourne’s found that in his teammates in Las Vegas.
“It’s very important, because birds of a feather flock together,” he said. “It’s awesome to have friends that stick by you through and through, but, at the same time, sometimes you have to move away from your friends and your family because they don’t understand what you’re going through. So it’s good to have fighters that actually understand what you’re going through and have been through it because you can lean on them at certain times when you’re down or certain times when you need a little push. And you can always lean on certain people in the gym that have been going through the same thing because everybody moves out to Vegas. No one was born and raised here, really. Most of these fighters came out here with the same situation.”
