Biography
Dominic Reyes is one of the legends of modern Mixed Martial Arts (MMA, from English. "Mixed Martial Arts"). His force and pressed by Ovins Saint-Premat, Volkan Ozdemir, Chris Vaidman and other titans. Only John Jones still turned out to be stronger: it was from his hands in February 2020 before the disappointible Dominic Reyes suffered the first defeat in his career.Childhood and youth
Dominic Reyes was born on December 26, 1989 in Jesperia, California, in the poor family of Mexican emigrants. True nationality was reflected only on the appearance of a fighter, he has American citizenship.
Interest in sport Dominic Reyes showed in early childhood. He began, however, not with mixed martial arts, but from football: his dream was to get to the National Football League (NFL) of the United States. Parents encouraged these aspirations, perceiving sports as a method for preventing carelessness.
The fact is that the financial situation in the family did not allow to educate Dominica Reyes and his older brother Alexander adestly. And in the conditions of poverty, many guys are known to begin to deal with discrepancy and fraud. Dominic Reyes, fortunately for his parents and MMA fans, preferred physical exertion crime.
After graduating from school, Dominic Reyes moved to New York and entered the University of Stone Brooke. He specialized in information systems.
From 2009 to 2012, Dominic Reyes played in Stony Brook Seawolves Student team at SAYFTI position, in the last line of protection. During this period, he went twice in the "Dream Team" of New York.
In 2013, the fate of Dominica Reyes in NFL was solved. To the draft time - time when football teams are gaining new players from among students - he approached not quite prepared: its speed and accuracy of the throws were not impressed by agents. Therefore, the athlete remained overboard. Dreams of his breath collapsed.
Personal life
The main support for Dominica Reyes in his personal life - Laura Margaret Peña, also a native of Jesperia. The family of its activity is far from what is devoted to her beloved: the girl is a lawyer. In 2014, she released from California University in Riverside Bachelor of Law, and now works by profession.In "Instagram", Dominic Reyes does not like to publish photos with the beloved, although social networks are used regularly: his Twitter is updated every day several times.
Dominic Reyes just at the age when men acquire their own family. However, Laura Margaret Foam has no ring yet, and there is no children from the couple.
Mixed martial arts
After the collapse of hopes for a bright future in NFL, Dominic Reyes began to engage in mixed martial arts at Combat Cage Academy - a hall that belonged to his brother Alexander. Soon he began to go to octave in amateur competitions.
A new sport captured the Dominica Reyes. He said:
"In football you can do everything right, but because of the set of command factors lose. In MMA, I myself control my fate. If I stubbornly train and configure the battle morally, it means that I will win. "Before you sign a contract with UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship), Dominic Reyes installed a personal record - 6 amateur wins without a single loss. Especially spectacular was his fight against Jordan Powell, who led in the bill, but fell into knockout.
On July 25, 2017, the debut fight of the Reyes Dominica under the auspices of UFC took place. His opponent became Joachim Kristensen, an athlete from Denmark. The youth defeated the experience: despite the fact that Dane in MMA for 10 years longer than an American, he did not hold out and half a minute. A beautiful ending honored the title fight "Evening performance."
A little longer, Americans Jeremy Kimball and Jared Cannon were launched near the onslaught of Dominica Reais. But Osshin Saint-Pond and Volkan Ozdemir resisted until the last minute, but both lost to the decision of the judges.
Reaye Dominica with Chris Viderman became the main event of October 2019. Americans prepared longer than really competed: Dominic Reyes sent an opponent to the technical knockout after a minute and a half minutes of the 1st round and received another title "Evening performance" in the piggy bank.
Dominic Reyes now
As of March 2020, Dominic Reyes occupied the top of the UFC rating among fighters speaking in a light heavyweight, and the 15th place among all the wards promotion. And this despite the defeat on the UFC 247 in battle against John Jones.Dominic Reyes and John Jones met in octave in Houston, Texas, February 8, 2020. On Konya stood a champion title in a heavyweight weight. The fighters fought as tigers and laid all 5 rounds for 5 minutes. The jury, comparing the forces of opponents, unanimously awarded the victory of John Jones.
The public field instantly filled with pillars, allegedly Dominica Reaires was abandoned. Indeed, if you rate on rounds, then American led 3: 2. John Jones included reserves in the last two "five-minutes", therefore probably won.
Dominica Reais fee for this fight was $ 380 thousand. While this is the largest earnings in the biography of an athlete.
On the eve of the battle, Dominic Reyes did not doubt that he would become the first fighter in the history of UFC, who managed to fight the invincible John Jones:
"I want him to remain an absolute leader to a meeting with me. I want to tell me: "This Dominic Reyes, who destroyed John Jones".And although hopes were not justified, octave the fighters left without drama. John Jones noticed that "After that fight, Dominic forced himself to respect." He in turn did not believe in the first in his career defeat, but from the soul congratulated the opponent with the title.
John Rielich sports browser, referring to the post of director of UFC Dane White in "Instagram", predicted the Reales Dominic Revenge and Johns in the summer of 2020. Yes, and the fighters themselves at a press conference after UFC 247 did not exclude the possibility of revenge.
Achievements
- 2017, 2019 - the title "Evening performance"