Lee Murray

BE: Do you have a final message for the people reading this?

LM: The world is full of surprises, and maybe one day I will get a chance to prove myself again, this time as the new and improved me, even tougher than the Lee Murray they last saw in the cage.

I would also like to thank the people who put the time into helping me throughout my career. Dexter Casey started me in the sport, and the Nemesis Gym was my first fighting gym. Tony Malik and Gordon’s Gym, as well as my Thai boxing coach, Lee Whittington, deserve credit, and Andy Jardine and Lee Hasdell, the first-ever MMA promoters in the UK, made it possible for fighters like me to fight in the UK.

I’d like to thank Dave O’Donnell for always leaving the door open for me to fight on Cage Rage shows whenever I wanted, as well as Dana White and UFC for giving me the opportunity to fight for them. My main gym, London Shootfighters, all my training partners there, and my main MMA coaches, Alexis Demetriades and Paul Ivens, deserve thanks for all the years of sweat and blood.

Pat Miletich and his team helped me so much over the years, as did my strength and conditioning coach, Alan Ingarfield. And last, but by no means least, I’d like to thank the man responsible for turning my hands into Kalashnikovs: Terry Coulter.