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“I’m learning so much more from everything I’ve experienced,” said Turner, who turned pro in 2016. “I’m becoming a complete fighter now and it feels pretty good.”
Now 2-2 in the Octagon, Turner’s upside is considerable and evident every time he’s emerged victorious on fight night. Doing it consistently is the trick, though, and while anything can happen in a fight or in the lead-up to it, Turner is doing his best in the gym to ensure that the odds are in his favor when it’s time to make the walk.
“I always love pressure,” he said. “I thrive under pressure and I love dealing with stuff like that because I’m so calm under it and it doesn’t really faze me too much. I’ve always been a little bit of a showoff (Laughs), so I like to show off my talents that night, show off what I’ve been working on. Anything can happen and I always pay attention to that because it’s happened to me. I’ve gone in there as prepared as ever, feeling great, and then something will be off. I could be a little bit mentally off or make a little mistake, and then bam, I’m on the short end of the stick in the fight. Stuff like that happens, but I’ve been learning to deal with all that and take it it and use it as positively as possible and build off of it.”
Attitude has a lot to do with it at this level, and Turner has that part covered. So while the COVID-19 pandemic hit everybody hard at first earlier this year, once May rolled around, “The Tarantula” was working out and asking for a fight.
“I was training with my coach in his garage, was training at the park with my coaches and I got back on it right away,” he said. “I told my manager, Jason House, ‘Get me whoever. I don’t care who they put in front of me, I just want to fight.’”