(bright music)
- [Kyle] When you fight, you obviously feel pain.
You feel the punches.
When you get hit, you feel it.
You're not oblivious to it.
MMA, yeah, you get punched.
Yeah, you get hit.
Yeah, you get taken down and you have
some guy trying to rip your arm off.
But I don't fear an MMA fight.
There's nothing that's gonna happen to me in there
that's ever gonna compare to what I've been through.
- Don't just bump.
Use your shoulder.
I don't throw the arm here, so I end up this way.
I throw the arm like I'm throwing an elbow.
Throw that up, yes, yes.
Perfect, perfect, perfect, now.
So on September 30th in Lethbridge,
we've got a fight, and Kyle is gonna be making
his return to the cage.
So everything we're doing right now is working towards that.
Kyle's always had a lot of natural talent and physicality.
I mean, he's a really big guy.
He's done wrestling in the past.
He's able to do a lot of things that
guys of his stature can't do.
So he was always an exciting guy for me
to get my hands on to train,
'cause you don't usually get someone
who's 265 pounds who can also do front rolls and cartwheels,
and be athletic.
- I am the Canadian national champion for amateur MMA.
MMA is boxing plus wrestling plus kickboxing
plus Judo plus, it's everything combined.
What I love about it is just the competitive aspect.
It's a competition.
It looks like a human dog fight or a human chicken fight
from a person standing on the outside,
but to me it's a human chess match.
- Kyle had just started his career when we met.
- I changed a lot of my life
to try to be a better father.
I never knew my father.
I grew up with my mom and my stepdad.
And I always wanted to make sure that
I was a better father than the father I never knew.
(people chattering)
- Kyle Francotti was a man who was at the top of his game,
and had just become a new father when he found out
about his tumor.
He found out about it in probably
even the worst way possible.
But in an athlete's perspective,
the worst way you could find out was that
you'd be denied being able to fight.
And he was fighting for a title at Hard Knocks.
This was back going a couple years now already.
- When Kyle was diagnosed with the tumor,
it was kind of a crazy happenstance thing in that.
Typically, at amateur, the fight promoters do not
require an MRI.
But this particular promoter just did.
- I actually remember being at the clinic,
and my only question was because they used the dye,
my only question was how much weight was the dye.
Like, how much was this gonna add to my body weight
because I had to be specifically 205 pounds because
it was a title fight.
Did the scan, and that's when the doctor
started telling me that I had a brain tumor.
And that I'd be on a medical suspension.
Like, I couldn't fight because of the tumor.
Okay, can daddy go on that one?
- [Kylix] Yeah, I'm right here.
- Okay, like this?
- It was a crazy weekend.
It wasn't until we started heading home that it hit him
that that was real.
Reality kind of sunk in, and we, I cried.
He talked.
- That's when it kicked in.
I realized that there was a chance that,
this could be it.
'Cause Kylix was only a year, right?
There was like, actual possibility that my son
could not know who I am.
He could grow up without a father,
and he could be that age where he doesn't remember me.
And all of that just hit me.
And I just broke down.
We got back to Grand Prairie,
went to see a specialist.
Told me where the tumor was located,
'cause it was on my ear canal, right beside my brain.
But it was also pushing on my brain.
The only way to get rid of the tumor was to
have the surgery.
They said because of the way my tumor was
and where it was and the size
and all of that kind of stuff,
there was 10% chance that I wasn't gonna wake up.
I remember I wrote a letter to my son.
For him to open when he's older,
just in case I didn't make it.
There was also a very high chance
that I was never gonna walk again.
And if everything does go phenomenal,
there was almost 100% chance that
I was never going to be where I was at before the tumor.
I was not gonna fight, I was not gonna be athletic.
I was gonna be happy.
And live a nice, long life.
But not the life I was accustomed to.
Two hours after the surgery, I started waking up.
You try to sit up, you try to get up,
you try to, and I just couldn't move.
And I was just in, even though I was on painkillers,
I was just in indescribable pain.
It was just the most painful night of my life.
It's almost hard to explain.
You can't walk, you can't do anything on your own.
It's a very dark place people go to.
- So Kyle, he gets through it,
and he comes down the stairs after his surgery.
He had had it, and looked quite incapacitated
compared to what he was as a vibrant young athlete,
just previous to his surgery.
I've seen other instances of what I call heroism,
but nothing to that degree.
It sort of had that element of resurrection to it.
- When he first came back, I mean,
he couldn't even do the first five minutes of warmup.
So we basically just said, look,
you don't have to do the warmup.
Do as much as you can.
Then sit out.
Then he would come back and he would do
a little more of the warmup, and then
a little more of the warmup.
Pretty soon, he's doing the whole warmup.
- He trained so hard, and it took him
a long time to get from even just walking.
Walking to the park, walking in the grocery store.
That was super difficult for him.
- My head was still hurting a lot.
There were still things healing and shifting,
but little things that I was still so blinded to
because I was focused on fighting.
I was focused on getting back.
I was focused on trying to be the person
I was before the surgery.
And it was about six months after my surgery
I remember that I went and saw my doctor.
He was very surprised with how far I came.
He actually said that I could fight again if I wanted.
Eight months after my surgery,
I went to Las Vegas for the MMA World Championships.
Being the Canadian national champion,
I was able to represent Canada as a heavyweight.
I put a lot of pressure on myself.
I thought that this is how I was gonna prove that
I was back and I'd beat it all.
And then, losing my fight by disqualification
was just absolutely heartbreaking.
Afterwards, when I sat back in the hotel
the night after my fight and just thinking
I let everybody down.
But, I realized that this wasn't the end of my story.
This wasn't my swan song.
It was just the end of a certain chapter.
And now it's time to write a new one.
What I'm focusing on right now athletically
is my fight in Lethbridge on September 30th for
Rumble in the Cage.
It's gonna be my comeback fight.
- He has to stay in immaculate shape.
So our life is just like, ah, so crazy.
We just kind of see each other in passing.
- Purple for Kylix, orange for Aiden.
- [Kylix] Yeah.
- How about you guys drink milk for breakfast?
- It's so much time and discipline and sacrifice
training two, three times a day.
If you have a family,
leaving them at home so you can go train.
It's a lot of sacrifice.
(upbeat music)
I would say the most important thing I've learned
through everything is that all of this has grounded me,
and it's made me realize that you never know
when it all might be over.
(intense music)
(people chattering)
Dog tired right now.
I will still be up tomorrow morning.
I will still be at the gym.
I'll still do my workout for two hours.
I'll still go to work.
It's supposed to be plus 30 tomorrow.
And I work outside all day.
I'll still be here tomorrow night.
Push push push, every chance I get.
- September 30th, Kyle has a big fight coming up.
I think it's a lot of pressure right now
coming off of disqualification, and World's.
I know I have dreams for Kyle.
But I think he is mentally prepared,
physically prepared, and it's gonna happen.
- At the end of my fight, win or lose,
I wanna be able to sit there in the dressing
room when it's done and know that
I did absolutely everything that I could
to get to that point.
- [TV Announcer] Home theaters, rated PG-13.
(bright music)
- Today is a lot of rest, relaxation,
keeping my mind off the fight,
but at the same time, staying focused on my fight.
Just trying to stay loose, relaxed.
A lot of just sitting around.
It's not our first rodeo anymore.
So we know what needs to be done.
We know where we need to do it.
And now it's just executing the game plan.
- [Man] Be careful, be careful, okay?
(upbeat music)
- Hey, how are you?
- Hey Ben, you coming?
- So for Kyle especially, you know,
he's fought, he's had injuries, he's recovered.
He's back in there fighting again.
He's been off for a while.
How do you deal with that?
So and that's gonna be his mental curve is,
can he handle the pressure?
You have to prepare for the worst,
and hope for the best,
and just hope you put it all together at the right time.
- Tonight when I step in the cage,
hopefully my mind will be in a spot where
I focus mostly on my breath, my heart rate,
staying calm, staying relaxed.
If I can stay calm, stay relaxed,
I'll be able to focus on what my
coach is telling me to do.
If I can focus on what my coach is telling me to do,
I'll have a very easy night.
(intense music)
- [Announcer] Ladies and gentlemen,
we are live here at the Servus Sports Centre
in Lethbridge, Alberta for Rumble in the Cage 55.
- From where he was to go down all the way
because of the surgery that he went through
and again coming back and be able to go to the top again,
it's very rough.
Life is not easy, but what he has done,
it's pretty cool to see.
And very inspiring to see.
- [Kyle] I needed one more amateur fight
before I could go pro.
But you can't underestimate anybody.
The opponent that you know nothing about
is one of the most dangerous opponents
because you don't know what to expect.
- [Announcer] Introducing first in the blue corner,
making his cage debut, Earl, the grizzly bear, Harper.
- [Kyle] If I lose this fight,
everything I've worked on as an amateur
goes out the window.
Me going to World's, me being the national champion
for heavyweight, me being number nine in the world
for heavyweight, all of that gets erased
because I lost to a guy that's a one and O.
I realize that he's trained and he's here
for a reason, also.
Everyone has a chance of winning.
Everyone has a chance of losing.
I'm not going into this fight thinking that
I'm just gonna demolish him.
- [Announcer] Weighing in at 264 pounds,
fighting at the Champion Gym
in Grand Prairie, Alberta,
Kyle, the body, Francotti.
(cheering)
(bell dinging)
- [Reporter] He's 32 years of age at six foot six,
weighed in at 264.
He's in the black trunks,
and he's on Harper quickly.
Looks overwhelmed to big man.
Snaps him down.
Kyle, good work here by Earl Harper,
getting in on the leg,
making Francotti have to change his strategy.
And Francotti just using that size,
and he is a beast.
- [Other Reporter] Yeah, Harper internal now,
has Francotti opening up for some
vigorous left hand tangles.
Harper's gonna have to defend himself better than this
or official Mark Aborizio could step in here any moment.
(cheering) (bell dinging)
- Can I have pizza now?
- [Bill] Yes, you can have a pizza now.
- The fight was fast.
Wham, bam, it was done.
I was happy.
I was extremely happy.
Like it was my first fight back since World's.
Now we go pro.
- That's right.
- Thank you.
You have no idea how much I appreciate that, man.
- I'm glad we made it work.
- I was in a very deep value with
walls that I didn't even think I could climb out of.
There was times where, even though I had lots of support,
I thought I was alone.
I was very depressed.
But I was in a very bad place after my tumor.
- When you see someone go down,
and it's one of the nice things about our sport.
You get to see a lot.
You get to see people who fight through
all sorts of horrendous stuff,
and they use sport and athletics
to beat those demons.
And it's about the spirit.
- And now to be here, like two years later,
I'm on top of the world.
It's just an amateur fight,
but for me, right now, in our place of life,
we're doing good.
And I gotta remember who was there for me
when I was doing bad.
Certain music and certain lyrics and certain songs
will make me remember what I went through,
and like, I'm back stage and I fight in half an hour,
and I'm crying and like, you know.
But that's just, it's what I went through.
It's who I am.
And to me it's worth it.
(upbeat music)
♪ Come on, everybody, let's go downtown ♪
♪ We're gonna race on hell ♪
♪ And I'm the best around ♪
♪ Whoa, yeah, night warrior ♪
♪ Whoa, yeah, night warrior ♪
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