World Champion MMA Fighter Diagnosed with MS Did This Instead of Quitting | Alberto Crane
3/27/202648 min
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Alberto Crane was the first American to earn a BJJ black belt from Gracie Barra. He fought in the UFC. Won world championships. Built Legacy Jiu-Jitsu into a 25-year institution.
Then came the MS diagnosis.
Most people would have stopped. Alberto went on a world tour.
In this episode, we talk about what getting punched in the face teaches you about leadership, why 3 years of losing made Alberto unstoppable, the power...
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First 90 secondsAlberto Crane· Guest0:00
Most men live lives of quiet desperation, you know, never really taking that, that jump, taking that risk. I followed my dreams. I was 23 and I started my school. I had a big credit card bill. I, I, I had a credit card limit of 20,000. I lived on that, you know? But I went all in. You know, like I realized most people never do that in their lives. Going for it, showing up, doing it. The resilience of everything, of going through it. I keep showing up no matter what. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, I don't act like I'm a victim, I figure out the solution.
Ryan Hanley· Host0:29
What does a man do when the world tells him he's finished? When he loses his first 13 world-class competitions in a row? When a doctor's diagnosis hands him a death sentence for his physical life and sentences him to a wheelchair? If you're a reasonable man, you adapt. You accept the fate. You fade away. But we're not interested in reasonable men on this show, and today's guest is a testament to that. We have Alberto Crane. He isn't just a sixth-degree Brazilian jujitsu black belt, UFC veteran, and a world champion, Alberto Crane is the first- is one of the first Americans to ever conquer the world of Brazilian jujitsu. He's a pioneer who packed his bags for Brazil when everyone else was just playing it safe at home. No one even knew about BJJ back then. This is a man who was told no teen times and decided to become a world champion anyways. A man who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and instead of accepting