UFC: 7 Weirdest Jobs Fighters Had Outside of MMA

Fighting doesn't pay well for those outside the UFC. It's rare that lower-level fighters can afford to train full time, so many usually get jobs bouncing or doing construction or some other manner of grunt work. 

However, there are some fighters whose work backgrounds are far from normal. 

What are these "different" jobs fighters had before being employed to fight for a living? Read and find out!

Allen Berube: Restauranter

Remember Allen Berube from Season 5 of The Ultimate Fighter?

If not, that's OK because he was kind of forgettable. 

Nevertheless, he actually had a more interesting background than most other fighters because he was the owner of a seafood restaurant called Monstah Lobstah located in Tampa, Florida.

Houston Alexander: Underground DJ

Before Houston Alexander had his 15 minutes of UFC fame, he was a prominent DJ in Nebraska's underground hip hop scene.

He went by the name of "Scrib" and was actually quite an influential figure, supporting various causes and artists.

Joe Lauzon: Network Administrator

Joe Lauzon would make the protagonists in Revenge of the Nerds proud. 

Why?

Because before he was ever a prominent UFC lightweight, he was a geek—a network administrator. In fact, he was still working as a network administrator during his career until he knocked out Jens Pulver and decided to take it to the next level. 

Shane Carwin: Engineer

Shane Carwin is truly a man of many talents. 

He can smash people's faces in but he is also adept at engineering, having earned a degree in mechanical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and being employed as an engineer. 

So great is his devotion to the profession that he continued working even after he won his interim heavyweight championship from Frank Mir!

Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos: Team Handball Player

There are several bases for MMA competition—wrestling, Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, team handball. 

No, for real. Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos was actually a skilled team handball player who competed on the national level in Brazil. 

She was "discovered" by a trainer from the legendary Chute Boxe gym, and the rest is history.

Georges St-Pierre: Garbage Man

Remember Duke "The Dumpster" Droese? Well if you don't, he was a professional wrestler whose gimmick was that he was a garbage man who wrestled (as if "The Dumpster" didn't give it away).

In an example of life imitating art, Georges St-Pierre, the UFC welterweight champion and one of the greatest fighters of this generation—if not of all time—was once naught but a humble garbage man while he tried to work his way up the MMA ladder.

Seriously. 

Pretty strange that a man who was throwing around pales of trash would end up throwing around some of the world's greatest fighters. Who would've thought such a thing was possible?

Hiroko Yamanaka: Dominatrix

Hiroko Yamanaka's job as a dominatrix is no doubt the absolute strangest job a fighter had outside of MMA. 

Is there really anything else to say about it? It's so outlandish and bizarre that it kind of speaks for itself. 

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