ONE Championship fighter James Yang, Demetrious Johnson's training partner, says his time in a Shaolin martial arts academy in rural China helped prep him for his MMA debut Friday morning.
's protégé -- experienced while living at a Shaolin martial arts academy in China ... and he says that adversity helped prepare him for his first pro fight.later this week ... and James broke down his experience living in the temple as a 17-year-old, and it sounds scary.
Yang says at the time, foreigners weren't accepted in the region where he was living ... so venturing out of the temple grounds could get very dangerous. If his time in China didn't already make him the most interesting MMA fighter in the world ... James also detailed his time spent performing with Cirque du Soleil.
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