The inspiring struggle of Johnathan Ivey, born in poverty and raised in hardship. Having little potential in the eyes of others, he grew up as a thug, the product of his environment. While battling po... Read More
The inspiring struggle of Johnathan Ivey, born in poverty and raised in hardship. Having little potential in the eyes of others, he grew up as a thug, the product of his environment. While battling poverty, prejudice, and emotional as well as social disorders, he discovered that people would pay you to fight.As a brawler, he became a professional mixed martial arts fighter with no training nor amateur experience. That brawler then became a single parent to a baby girl, and that is where it all changed. With no other source of income, he accepted an unprecedented and suicidal twenty-six professional mixed martial arts fights in a single year! Breaking two world records in the process of his insane quest to provide for his child, he became a legend known as ?the Leg Lock Monster.?A rare tale of a monster who became a loving Christian dad like no other that has ever existed. This biography is the true-life love story of someone who shocked everyone, overcoming overwhelming odds, all for his love of Savannah, his baby girl.