“I always got a little, I don’t want to say offended, but I always got rubbed the wrong way when I would fight for promotions and the very first thing they would say about me was, ‘We’ve got former player, Austen Lane,’” Lane explained. “I don’t want to be ‘former’ anything; I just want to be current. I understand that me playing in the National Football League is going to bring me some sort of notoriety, but I never try to use that to build a fight.”
Now at 10-3 professionally, Lane has amped up his training, mindset and opposition.
His most recent win over UFC veteran Juan Adams serves as the most realistic benchmark for where Lane’s skill set lies. He’s no longer the NFL player and he’s no longer “the guy who lost to Greg Hardy.”
Austen Lane is the knockout artist who feels he’s on the doorstep of the UFC and not stopping until he gets there.
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