I was in San Fran a couple of weeks ago and went to a very nice restaurant with some colleagues. I was sitting there and our waiter came up and starting describing the specials and stuff.
I looked at him and said to myself "no way, it can't be him".
Someone else took drink orders, someone else brought bread, etc. The waiter came back later after a few minutes and I stared at him.
"No way it's him. Nuh uh".
So about 20 minutes later, he walked by and I said "Are you a fighter in the ultimate fighter championship?"
True enough, he was. For about 99.9% of people, they have no idea what the UFC is. It's a pretty barbaric form of fighting that is trying to become more mainstream. In fact, it's now more popular than boxing and has instituted a number of rules and weight classes to make it more legitimate. The fighting enterprise has a reality show on TV called the Ultimate Fighter, now in season 5, that takes 16 fighters, puts them in a house, breaks them into two teams, and they compete over a couple of months until there is one winner who gets a large contract with the enterprise.
So our waiter, Marlon Sims, was one of the fighters on season 5. He got kicked off the show for fighting one night in the house with another guy, which I guess is against the rules. Sims is also known for being a tough street fighter.
One other person at the table knew who he was but to be honest, I am probably one out of a million people who could have spotted him out of nowhere.
His profile is here. He was a really nice guy, very personable, and someone I would definitely NOT want to be angry at me.
Just thought I'd share.
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