Royston Wee, the first and only Singaporean to fight in the prestigious Ultimate Fighting Championship, now coaches at Trapeze Rec Club."If you want something, then go and do it" is pretty much the simple philosophy professional MMA-fighter turned full-time coach Royston Wee has followed in life to get to where he is.
I trained hard and I was like, I don't know, maybe one day I'm gonna be a fighter, and maybe one day I'm gonna be a coach. So I got really obsessed and trained two, three times a day, six days a week. That continued for years.[embed]https://www.instagram.com/p/BCJ30weH7I2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link[/embed]
I ORD-ed around the age of 24, and transitioned to part-time coaching. I was a newbie at that point in time but I still trained a lot. I wanted to earn some money so that I could sustain myself and compete at the same time. So I held back my studies for sport science. But I told myself, you cannot just sit your ass in one corner and then wait for opportunity to come. Can lah but you gotta wait very long ah! Sometimes you gotta put yourself out there right? I don't like to sit there, with no opportunity, and just complain, complain, complain. I really don't like that kind of attitude.
As weeks passed, there was no news. Then one of the UFC scouting talents was like, "Royston, we are planning to do a first-ever UFC event here in Singapore. Would you be interested?" Of course! Being the first Singaporean to do or achieve something is glorious, but also comes with its own set of challenges. How did you cope with your UFC debut and win, especially mentally?[When I won the fight], I was emotional man, really emotional. But at the same time just grateful that whatever happened, happened. While I was studying, I had stopped competing or fighting for about two years.
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