Joe Pingitore ’s career outside the cage can get as extreme as saving lives. When he enters the confines of competition, however, his goal is to inflict damage on another human being, which is quite the contrast. Pingitore (6-2-1), who fights Matt Bessette (19-7) for the vacant CES MMA featherweight title at Friday’s CES MMA 37 event, works as an emergency medical technician (EMT) as his primary means of living. When he’s not doing that, though, Pingitore is in the gym training for his career as a professional fighter. Although one job requires him to help people and the other requires him to hurt people, Pingitore said there’s no strangeness or inner conflict to his situation
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Fighting EMT Joe Pingitore knows he’s getting paid to hurt, not help, at CES MMA 37 – MMA Junkie