Anthony Leone remembers when he was a kid and he’d sit on the couch and watch boxing with his grandfather. He was horrified by what he watched. “I was thinking, why would anybody want to do this?” he said. “And that was just with boxing – with big gloves and punches only. So I think that kid would think, damn I grew up to be a bad motherf—er.” Leone (13-6 MMA, 3-3 BMMA) remembers that early introduction to combat sports and laughs. But now a successful MMA bantamweight – one who fights reigning champion Eduardo Dantas (15-3 MMA, 5-0 BMMA) in Friday’s Bellator 111 headliner – he’s still as loose and wide-eyed as ever
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Anthony Leone on Bellator 111 title offer: ‘I almost pooped my pants’ – MMA Junkie