Brian McGrath began his combat sports career as an amateur MMA fighter in the small town of Missoula, Mont. Now he competes as a professional kickboxer in his adopted home of Japan, where he has won several titles. On September 24, he’ll get the biggest opportunity of his career when he enters the K-1 World Grand Prix eight-man cruiserweight tournament. Here is his story of living and fighting as a foreigner in Japan, as told to MMAjunkie’s Ben Fowlkes
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