Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today's guests strive for excellence in all areas of their lives and are top competitors in their respective sports.

Michael Chandler is a professional mixed martial artist who has been fighting for almost 10 years.

Bursting on to the MMA scene in 2010,

Michael was successful in 12 consecutive wins, including three in the Bellator tournament,

becoming the season four lightweight tournament champion.

Michael recognizes that the fight isn't only about his skill as a mixed martial artist, but that all of us are fighting

every day for our families, for our friends, and for our faith.

He strives to carry himself as a man of God and an example of strength and discipline as he uses his

platform to reach people for Christ. My name is Michael Chandler. I am a

professional mixed martial artist. I've been fighting now for almost 10 years. I live in Nashville, Tennessee.

For me growing up was a lot of fun. I was the oldest of three boys so you can imagine our

life was very hectic. house was very loud very chaotic

all three of my all three of us me and my two brothers kind of have very similar

personalities all very very active and rambunctious.

My parents both worked two jobs to make sure that we had every opportunity that we needed.

We were always in sports, we were always in activities, we had always, we're having big family parties and get

together as my dad's a carpenter. My mother was a secretary and worked at a my

Grandpa's restaurant. My dad would pick up side jobs in the on the weekends and if we weren't

in the woods or on some kind of sports field somewhere, we were at home causing ruckus and

wrestling and pulling out the mattresses and all that

kind of stuff. So it was very fun, very chaotic. We grew up Catholic. We went to Catholic

Mass on Sundays and we did our first Holy Communion and we did our confirmation and all that kind of stuff.

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