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The twists and turns of the curvy road of life can be no better personified than in ONE Championship middleweight, and former title contender, Tyler McGuire. That being said, what seems like a long windy road from small-town Iowa to two international careers, McGuire makes it sound quite linear.
“I was pretty much raised by a single mom,” McGuire told Combat Press. “You know, dad, in and out. I’ve got an awesome mom, an awesome support system and awesome grandparents. It was a small-town life in Iowa in a town of about 8,000 people. It was good, you know, middle class – wasn’t rich, wasn’t poor. I played sports and was outside all the time.”