Horwich is a hippy

Cage Potato, one of my favourite MMA blogs, recently (ha, almost two weeks ago) posted an exclusive interview with Matt Horwich of Team Quest.

I first met Horwich about two years ago. I realised within about 3 seconds of meeting him that the guy is a grade-A space cadet. Sure, he’s cool, but his fascination with Jesus unnerves me a bit (I don’t get fighters and the whole ‘God’ thing) and he seemed like a pretty mellow guy, even if he did carry a bible around with him everywhere.

I didn’t know he had battled drug and alcohol problems in the past, although it totally makes sense. People who come from troubled backgrounds and problems with addiction often throw themselves into religion. If it works for him, fair enough.

“Peace and love, man”

The interview really highlighted something of interest (to me, at least). It turns out Horwich is a hippy. A proper guitar-playing, painted van-driving, poetry-writing hippy. His plans for when he quits fighting? Aside from donating money to orphans (that is a certified way to heaven, surely), he plans to open an organic food restaurant. Good on him. The only hippies I have met in combat sports tend to be from BJJ, where smoking weed and being passive (passive-aggressive that is) is more-or-less encouraged.

I do find it ironic that Horwich trains out of the same gym as uber-Republican Chael Sonnen though. As Sonnen famously said, “I’m not laying underneath a grown man with my legs wrapped around him. I’m a Republican and we don’t do that.” Yep, that’s why you suck at jiu-jitsu, dude. Maybe you should take some of Horwich’s medicine and chill out a bit.