Alan Jouban has a 9-2 MMA record and is set to make his UFC debut this weekend, but people are more about Jouban’s past than his future.
Before he was a top level MMA fighter, Jouban was a male model. (Insert Zoolander Joke)
Joubanwas a model for Abercrombie & Fitch, Pepsi, Toyota, T-Mobile and others during his early career. MostBeautifulMan.com once called him “One of the foremost male models in Los Angeles.” Now Jouban is forfilling his true dream, becoming a UFC athlete.
“Honestly, pretty much every day for the last eight, maybe nine years, I’ve thought about making it to the UFC and walking into the Octagon and looking around and seeing the crowd and all of that,” Jouban said.
Jouban also discussed some of the differences between MMA and show biz fighting.
“You can’t compare fighting to being in show business or even acting itself, but I just heard an interview that [UFC middleweight] Cung Le did, where he was comparing fight training for a movie to fight training for a real fight,” Jouban said. “He was saying that fight training for a movie is harder. What he was getting at, and what I agree with, is that you train for a fight for six to eight weeks, you fight on a given night and you’re done.
“For the movies, you train for six to eight weeks to get into shape for the fight scenes. Then you shoot for months and months and you’re on the set for 13-hour days. That’s the difference. Obviously, it doesn’t compare to going into the cage and going to battle, but being on the set is not as easy as most people think.”
Jouban will fight UFC veteran Seth Baczynski this Saturday on UFC’s Fox Sports 1 card.