By Josh Hinkle
KCRG / Cedar Rapids TV Co.
Copyright 2007 KCRG / Cedar Rapids TV Co.
MILWAUKEE — If there ever was a true adrenaline junkie, 25-year-old Jesse Lennox might lead the list of contenders. Patrolling the streets of Cedar Rapids in an ambulance, his job delivers his thrill to heal, but it definitely disagrees with his hobby to hurt.
In Milwaukee, he finds the caged contradiction to his paramedic principles. The world of mixed martial arts delivers Jesse into a dangerous dichotomy.
His dad, Roger Lennox, says, “The first fight, I wasn’t sure whether to root for him or hope that he got beat up real bad so he’d never want to do it again.”
From high school wrestling to college boxing to a fan club president turned fiancee — Amy Huls.
She says, “My heart starts to beat really fast, and I start to sweat because I get so nervous… He just tells me to sit back and look pretty while he’s out there fighting.”
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