Walter Pugliese grew up surrounded by heroin addiction, domestic violence, and chaos. By 15, he had been arrested. Drugs, dealing, and prison followed—until he decided he wasn't going to waste his life.

Walter tells Neil how fighting became his way out, taking him from a life fuelled by rage to the brutal world of professional MMA and bare-knuckle fighting.

He opens up about his childhood, prison, the mistakes he refuses to let define him, becoming a father, and the night he went toe-to-toe with one of the biggest names in bare-knuckle fighting.

His dream now? A world title—and proving that after everything life has thrown at him, he's still standing.