Christian Reynoso: The Man in the Arena

Enter the Lionheart

Lawrence Dunning

Society & Culture, Business, Entrepreneurship, Philosophy

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Christian Reynoso has spent over two decades involved in combat sports. He was a multiple time amateur MMA champion and later professional MMA fighter, all while having a career as an Derivatives Options Trader. Recently he made the switch from fighting inside the cage, to now making waves in the Midwest MMA scene, as a renowned play by play analyst. Christian talks about his evolution first as a combat athlete with imposter syndrome, all the way to being a proud father, coaching wrestling to his two young boys. He now finds commentating the perfect blend of his knowledge from competing in combat sports as well as his passion for the sport of MMA and his diligence in making each show memorable for all the athletes involved. His tireless preparation and love for this new chapter is truly inspirational.

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0:00.0	A single theme is too narrow for great minds and daring hearts.
0:06.6	Get ready to enter the Lion Heart with your host, Lauren Stunning.
0:11.0	Today's guest is one of my dearest and oldest friends, Christian Manoso.
0:22.0	Christian and I went from being work buddies on the floor of the Chicago border trade
0:25.9	to later becoming Jiu-Jitsu teammates when I brought him to Valco Jiu-Jitsu.
0:30.5	I have to credit Christian with two huge things they did for me during my combat sports journey.
0:35.4	A blue-well, I nearly quit Jiu-Jitsu to focus on amateur boxing and he, alongside my awesome
0:41.1	coach Jay, kept me from making what would have been a very bad decision with hindsight.
0:45.9	Later, when I wanted to quit MMA after losing my first few professional fights, Christian
0:51.0	took me to Team Curran in Crystal Lake with Jeff Curran and Boxing Coach Doug Mango and
0:56.8	I truly found a new lease on life for MMA.
1:00.2	I loved the world-class training there and I got strained with some big names and some
1:04.2	UFC fighters but more importantly I was welcomed by the team and I ended up having a great
1:09.6	run before retiring on a three-fight win streak so I'll always be super grateful to Christian
1:14.4	for that.
1:15.4	I hope you enjoy our natter about our two-plus decades in combat sports and the lessons
1:20.5	and wisdom that we learned along the way.
1:23.1	I'm here with the absolute man-knit and the legend of self, Christian Henoso, but I've
1:29.0	been talking about this for a long time so I'm glad to finally get it done.
1:32.9	Thanks for having me, buddy.
1:33.9	Yes, super excited.
1:34.9	So we were just talking before we started recording about how you and I the last two decades
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