Malcolm Wellmaker is formally carried out working a day job.
After incomes a UFC contract on Dana White’s Contender Collection in August, ‘The Machine’ made probably the most of his promotional debut in Kansas Metropolis, delivering a brutal knockout of Cameron Saaimon just below the two-minute mark of the opening spherical.
Regardless of touchdown a gig with the most important combined martial arts group on the planet, Wellmaker opted to maintain his full-time job as a welder. Nonetheless, the Georgia native introduced on social media on Monday that he give up his job after banking a $50,000 efficiency bonus for his highlight-reel end.
“So many individuals purchased into my story, so right here’s an replace: I simply give up my job! Saturday evening, I made my UFC debut, scored a first-round knockout, and earned a $50k efficiency bonus. Right now I grew to become a full-time fighter,” Wellmaker wrote on Instagram. “In 2015, I joined the pipefitters union in Augusta, Native 150, as an apprentice. Since then, I’ve labored full time within the commerce whereas chasing my dream.
“All my profession, I swore that if I made it to the UFC and earned a 50k bonus, I’d give up my job, and right now it lastly occurred. I’ll all the time be grateful to the commerce. It helped me mature from a boy to a person, it introduced lifelong buddies into my life, and I realized a skillset I can all the time fall again on, it doesn’t matter what occurs.
“My objective now’s to take full benefit of my time within the UFC by utterly committing to combating, and if the whole lot goes my method I’ll by no means have to choose up my welding hood once more. But when I do, it gained’t break my coronary heart as a result of I really like the commerce and I’m blessed to have carried out it.”
After his explosive debut, Malcolm Wellmaker desires in on UFC Atlanta card
After taking zero injury in his UFC debut, Wellmaker will look to get again contained in the Octagon as quickly as potential.
If he will get his want, he’ll get a spot on the promotion’s UFC Atlanta card on June 14 at State Farm Area, simply a few hours away from Wellmaker’s entrance door.
Wellmaker improved his total report to 9-0 at UFC Kansas Metropolis with 5 of his wins coming by means of knockout and two extra by way of submission.
