Kyle Bochniak was looking to find something to keep him in shape and out of trouble when he started MMA training. Considering Bochniak is now heading into his fifth UFC outing, which now happens to be on a pay-per-view main card after the re-shuffling of Saturday’s UFC 223, you could say it worked out well for him. But the sport, it turns out, did more than provide the 31-year-old with a livelihood. “This just kind of saved my life,” Bochniak recently told MMAjunkie Radio. While Bockniak is now on “the straight and narrow” and fully committed to advancing his MMA career, that wasn’t the case as he was growing up in Gloucester, MA., where his partying at a young age would eventually lead to trouble with the law.
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For once-jailed UFC 223 fighter Kyle Bochniak, MMA was key to turning life around – MMA Junkie