LAS VEGAS – Chase Sherman knows what it’s like to have your contract terminated by the UFC, but now that he’s earned his way back to the promotion, “The Vanilla Gorilla” is going all in the second time around. Sherman recently left his day job as a firefighter at the Gulfport Fire Department in his native Mississippi so that he can focus full-time on his fighting career, a move he weighed carefully before making. “It was a really tough decision, but unfortunately, where I live, in Mississippi, I’m the only guy in the entire state in the UFC, so the bodies just really aren’t there to compete at this level, and I kind of learned that the first go round in the UFC,” Sherman told MMA Junkie at a Wednesday media day at the UFC Apex. “I can’t go train somewhere for two months and still be on with the department, and so they understood, you know, and I have a job whenever this is all said and done
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Chase Sherman left fire department to go all in on second UFC run: ‘There’s no regrets’ – MMA Junkie