Fight for the forgotten : how a mixed martial artist stopped fighting for himself and started fighting for others

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Label

Fight for the forgotten : how a mixed martial artist stopped fighting for himself and started fighting for others

Title remainder

how a mixed martial artist stopped fighting for himself and started fighting for others

Statement of responsibility

Justin Wren ; with Loretta Hunt

Creator

• Wren, Justin

Contributor

• Hunt, Loretta
• hoopla digital

Author

• Wren, Justin
• Hunt, Loretta

Subject

• Martial artists -- United States -- Biography
• Mbuti (African people) -- Social conditions
• Missionaries -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Biography
• Mixed martial arts -- United States
• Audiobooks
• Christian biography
• Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Social conditions

Genre

• Biography
• Audiobooks

Language

eng

Summary

Justin Wren knows what it's like to feel like the world is against you. Like many kids, Justin was bullied as a child. Fueled by the anger he felt toward his tormenters, Justin trained hard and propelled his dream of becoming a UFC fighter into reality. But the pain from his childhood didn't dissipate and Justin fell into a spiral of depression and addiction, leading him on a path toward destruction. After getting kicked out of his training community, his career was in shambles and he had nowhere else to go, so Justin attended a men's retreat, and it was there he found God. Justin joined several international mission trips that opened his eyes and his heart to a world filled with suffering deep in the jungle of the Democratic Republic of Congo. There he came across the Mbuti Pygmy tribe, a group of people persecuted by neighboring tribes and forced into slavery. His encounter with the Pygmy tribe left him wondering who was there to help them and in that moment Justin stepped out of the ring and into a fight for the forgotten

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Cataloging source

Midwest

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Format of music

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Literary text for sound recordings

other

Target audience

adult

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