Skill and training ultimately decide a contest, but a little good fortune helped Hamill earn a spot on the show.
"When I was a bouncer at Cavallo's (restaurant and tavern in New Hartford), people saw how I fought and the techniques I used to deal with unruly people," Hamill said in an interview using the Relay telephone system for the deaf. "I got lucky and met a cousin of another bouncer who was affiliated with the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and she referred me to the president of the UFC, Dana White. He was also impressed and he invited me to try out."The tryouts in Las Vegas took two weeks. They did drug tests and physical tests and a lot of interviews. There were a lot of skilled, excellent fighters at the tryouts. Only 12 made it out of 2,000 who tried out."Hamill has worked at Cavallo's for about two years. Manager Noelle Cavallo said Hamill is one of her best "door guys."
There is such a thing as being at the right place at the right time. Plus a bit of hard MMA training helps out alot.
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